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• As Charles Darwin promptly warned him, Wallace was sending the wrong message to their critics and lending unwarranted credibility to the concept of spirit powers. Darwin feared that Wallace now gave the impression that one of evolution theory’s founders had abandoned science in favor of superstition. 正如查尔斯·达尔文及时警告华莱士的那样，华莱士向他们的批评者发出了错误的信息，给精神力量的概念提供了不必要的可信度。达尔文担心华莱士现在给人的印象是，进化论的创始人之一抛弃了科学，取而代之的是迷信。 (查看原文)

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• The cause of women’s education first brought Myers and Sidgwick together. The Anglican Church insisted that God intended women to be subservient to men. So did most of society. Their own university, as most others, barred women from obtaining degrees. Queen Victoria herself was adamant on the subject: “Were women to ‘unsex’ themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.” Most of Sidgwick’s friends, his peers at Cambridge, saw only trouble in his argument that women should be allowed the “immense educational influence” of training for a profession. Sidgwick called it a matter of “simple justice.” Such “justice,” he was warned in turn, would lead to further demands by women, furt... (查看原文)

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