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Darwin on Trial at the Old Bailey
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[The Prisoner, a haggard and worried-looking man of gentlemanly appearance, standing in the dock between two warders. Jurymen chattering in the box at the left, counsel and solicitors busying themselves with papers in the well of the court, which is crowded with lady and gentlemen spectators. The turmoil abates in consequence of a rap by the usher and the emerging from behind a heavy curtained door of the Lord Mayor and of the Recorder in their official robes.]
The Silence! His Lordship. - After a pause - Regina v. Gilbert.
The Clerk of Alexander Gilbert, you are indicted for being a person of a wicked and depraved mind and disposition, having unlawfully and wickedly devised, contrived, and intended, to vitiate and corrupt the morals of the liege subjects of our Lady the Queen, to debauch and poison the minds of divers of the liege subjects of our said Lady the Queen, and to raise and create in them disordered and lustful desires, and to bring the said liege subjects into a state of wickedness, lewdness, and debauchery, and for having on the 20th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight, at a certain shop in Booksellers Lane in the county of London, and within the jurisdiction of this court, unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, scandalously, and wilfully published, sold, and uttered a certain lewd, wicked, bawdy, scandalous, and obscene libel . . .
A Voice in Splendid, beautiful! Grand indeed!
The Recorder of Silence! This interruption is quite scandalous; if anything of this sort is repeated, the court will be cleared.
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[The Prisoner, a haggard and worried-looking man of gentlemanly appearance, standing in the dock between two warders. Jurymen chattering in the box at the left, counsel and solicitors busying themselves with papers in the well of the court, which is crowded with lady and gentlemen spectators. The turmoil abates in consequence of a rap by the usher and the emerging from behind a heavy curtained door of the Lord Mayor and of the Recorder in their official robes.]
The Silence! His Lordship. - After a pause - Regina v. Gilbert.
The Clerk of Alexander Gilbert, you are indicted for being a person of a wicked and depraved mind and disposition, having unlawfully and wickedly devised, contrived, and intended, to vitiate and corrupt the morals of the liege subjects of our Lady the Queen, to debauch and poison the minds of divers of the liege subjects of our said Lady the Queen, and to raise and create in them disordered and lustful desires, and to bring the said liege subjects into a state of wickedness, lewdness, and debauchery, and for having on the 20th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight, at a certain shop in Booksellers Lane in the county of London, and within the jurisdiction of this court, unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, scandalously, and wilfully published, sold, and uttered a certain lewd, wicked, bawdy, scandalous, and obscene libel . . .
A Voice in Splendid, beautiful! Grand indeed!
The Recorder of Silence! This interruption is quite scandalous; if anything of this sort is repeated, the court will be cleared.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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First published September 27, 2015
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Democritus
29Ìýbooks226ÌýfollowersDemocritus (greek: ΔημόκÒÏιτος)(ca. 460 - ca. 370 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the most prolific and influential of the pre-Socratics and whose atomic theory is regarded as the intellectual culmination of early Greek thought. For this atomic theory, which echoes eerily the theoretical formulations of modern physicists, he is sometimes called the "father of modern science." He was well known to Aristotle, and a thorn in the side to Plato - who advised that all of Democritus' works be burned.
A cheerful and popular man with the citizenry for his uncanny ability to predict events, his was known among his fans as the "Laughing Philosopher," a title that may well have referred more to his scoffing rejection of assigning to gods the mechanistic operations of nature itself. His cosmology and atomic theory held that the world was spheroid, that there were many worlds and many suns, and that all things manifest in nature were comprised of atoms bound together. There are varying accounts of his age at death, ranging from a ripe 90 all the way to 109 years.
A cheerful and popular man with the citizenry for his uncanny ability to predict events, his was known among his fans as the "Laughing Philosopher," a title that may well have referred more to his scoffing rejection of assigning to gods the mechanistic operations of nature itself. His cosmology and atomic theory held that the world was spheroid, that there were many worlds and many suns, and that all things manifest in nature were comprised of atoms bound together. There are varying accounts of his age at death, ranging from a ripe 90 all the way to 109 years.
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