"And while the world of thought was thus seething and moving restlessly before the wave of ideas set in motion by these various independent philosophers, another group of causes in another field was rendering smooth the path beforehand for the future champion of the amended Evolutionism.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
On every side Evolutionism, in its crude form."
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
By no one has this conclusion been more clearly stated than by Lamarck, the real father of Organic Evolutionism, whom many would therefore represent as an atheist.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard