“Mr. Darwin blamed for the finding, and Dr. Gray for standing as its champion on our side of the Atlantic. And for bringing it to Vineland, I am threatened by my employer.” “And still your pupils depend on it, Thatcher. Their little families have come here looking for safety, but they will go on laboring under old authorities until their heaven collapses. Your charge is to lead them out of doors. Teach them to see evidence for themselves, and not to fear it.” “To stand in the clear light of day, you once said. Unsheltered.”
A poignant conversation between Thatcher and his friend Mary Treat (a real scientist in Darwin's time).
