Lock for these look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on cspan2. And so now im very please today introduce tonights author presenting his acclaimed new book, the book that changed america. Randall fuller works at the university of tulsa as well as the author of from battlefields rising. His work has appeared in the new york times, the wall street journal and other publications. Professor fuller is a winner of phi beta kappas award for best literary criticism. The book that changed america how darwins theory of evolution ignited a nation, explores how five luminaries gained new perspectives on the origin of the species in the leadup to the civil war. Thank you very much for the nice introduction. Thanks for coming out on what to oklahoma feels like a chilly night. I realize it is not really that cold. I am really glad to have been invited by the harvard bookstore. I have spent many hours over my professional li
Papers. That is because a title announces what is at stake for a lease hopefully announces what is at stake. I hope as nature as a saint, is that kind of title. You may think because the lecture is about melville, that it is a melville quote, but it is a walt emerson quote. Someone who was addressing some of the same kind of questions and concerns that melville was. Though nature as we know it is drawn rum Ralph Waldo Emersons essay called experience in 1884. He is trying to say what would our lives we like. How would we make sense of ourselves. How would we make sense of our world world. That is to say, we did not have our inherited elysian telling us how to make sense of our religion. We didnt have europe saying to the new world here is how to make sense of yourself and your new world. What would it be like if we took our experience as, in fact, the indication of what and right of what right and wrong is. And then he goes on to show us why that is so hard to do. Yes, experience is a
Lease hopefully announces what is at stake. Hopefully, it is colorful and draws you in. I hope as nature as a saint, is nature as we know her is no saint is that kind of title. You may think because the lecture is about melville, that it is a melville quote, but it is a walt emerson quote. A contemporary of melville, someone who was in his intellectual orbit. Someone who was addressing some of the same kind of questions and concerns that melville was. So nature as we know it is drawn from Ralph Waldo Emersons essay called experience in 1884. He is trying to say what would our lives be like . How would we make sense of ourselves . How would we make sense of our moral world if we came into original relationship with the universe . That is to say, we did not have our inherited religion telling us to make sense of our world. We didnt have europe saying to the new world here is how to make sense of yourself and your new world. What would it be like if we took our experience as, in fact, the
To sharing dad. But first, the nightline 5. Here at friskies cats are in charge of approving every new recipe. Because its cats who know best what cats like to eat. Up today, new friskies 7. Seven favorite cat flavors in one dish. Now for the moment of truth. Yep, looks like its time to share what our cats love with your cats. New friskies 7. For cats, by cats. Number one in just 60 seconds. Good even. Thanks for joining us. A Penn State Fraternity under fire tonight after its secret Facebook Page was exposed. Police say it was a former Fraternity Brother turned whistleblower who showed them the lewd pictures allegedly being shared. Its the fifth practice fernfraternity chapter in the country to be shut down or suspended in the last two weeks. Once again greek life is in the spotlight. Another fraternity capita rho, suspended by national headquarters. Some of its members facing potential criminal charges after a secret Facebook Page was exposed allegedly loaded with pictures of drugs,
5. Here at friskies cats are in charge of approving every new recipe. Because its cats who know best what cats like to eat. Up today, new friskies 7. Seven favorite cat flavors in one dish. Now for the moment of truth. Yep, looks like its time to share what our cats love with your cats. New friskies 7. For cats, by cats. Number one in just 60 seconds. Good even. Thanks for joining us. A Penn State Fraternity under fire tonight after its secret Facebook Page was exposed. Police say it was a former Fraternity Brother turned whistleblower who showed them the lewd pictures allegedly being shared. Its the fifth practice fernfraternity chapter in the country to be shut down or suspended in the last two weeks. Once again greek life is in the spotlight. Another fraternity capita rho, suspended by national headquarters. Some of its members facing potential criminal charges after a secret Facebook Page was exposed allegedly loaded with pictures of drugs, haze is and some nude seemingly unconscio