What did 'Soapy Sam' Wilberforce say?

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2 total messages Started by Del Cotter Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:30

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Author: Del Cotter
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:30

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I have been reading accounts of Thomas Huxley's famous 1860 encounter with 
Samuel Wilberforce, but none of them say *exactly* what it was Wilberforce
said about Huxley's descent from an ape.  Anybody know?
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Re: What did 'Soapy Sam' Wilberforce say?

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Author: M.Moore
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:04

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 (Del Cotter) writes:

>I have been reading accounts of Thomas Huxley's famous 1860 encounter with 
>Samuel Wilberforce, but none of them say *exactly* what it was Wilberforce
>said about Huxley's descent from an ape.  Anybody know?

Wilberforce is quoted as asking if 'somebody' (Darwin, for instance), was
descended from an ape on his mother's side, or his father's, Huxley's reply
was that he would rather be descended from an ape than from one who misused
his gifts as Wilberforce did.

My recollection (not of the debate...) is that there were no verbatim
accounts of the debate, (which took place in the Union debating society),
but that it was written up, or reported, later.

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