John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton Quote

Ideas have a radiation and development, an ancestry and posterity of their own, in which men play the part of godfathers and godmothers more than that of legitimate parents.


In: Gertrude Himmelfard, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution


Ideas have a radiation and development, an ancestry and posterity of their own, in which men play the part of godfathers and godmothers more than...

Ideas have a radiation and development, an ancestry and posterity of their own, in which men play the part of godfathers and godmothers more than...

Ideas have a radiation and development, an ancestry and posterity of their own, in which men play the part of godfathers and godmothers more than...

Ideas have a radiation and development, an ancestry and posterity of their own, in which men play the part of godfathers and godmothers more than...