Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 399
r of manybooks, a thinker; he was versed in history andphilosophy, he knew the dictionary by heart. Hemade but two statements concerning himself:one, that he had acquired his knowledge fromreading, and not at school; the other, that heknew every word in the English dictionary. Hewas willing to give… … MARK TWAIN AT EIGHTEEN. had many startling theories of his own. Darwinhad not yet published his Descent of Man, yetMacfarlane was already advancing ideas similar to those in that book. He went farther thanDarwin. He hadstartling ideas of themoral evolution ofman, and these hewould pour into the V…
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