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Join the roomDarwin fue una ciudad minera de carbón cerca de Laredo en el centro oeste del condado de Webb, Texas, Estados Unidos en la confluencia del Río Grande y el arroyo Santo Tomas, cerca del actual Colombia-Solidarity International Bridge. Fue fundada en 1882 después de que se encontrara carbón cerca del área. Fue nombrada en honor a David Darwin Davis, el propietario de la Cannel Coal Company. Para 1914, la población del pueblo había crecido a 800 y se construyó el Rio Grande and Eagle Pass Railroad para transportar el carbón extraído en minas cercanas. Para 1939, las minas fueron cerradas y la población disminuyó a 75. Hoy en día, Darwin es un pueblo fantasma, del cual todo lo que queda es un cementerio.
“The Beagle staid at St. Helena five days, during which time I lived in the clouds in the centre of the Isd.—It is a curious little world within itself; the habitable part is surrounded by a broad band of black desolate rocks, as if the wide barrier of the ocean was not sufficient to guard the precious spot.”
“Mr. Darwin begs me to say that he receives so many letters that he cannot answer them all. He considers that the theory of evolution is quite compatible with the belief in a God; but that you must remember that different persons have different definitions of what they mean by God.”
“To my mind there are no advantages and many disadvantages in lectures compared with reading.”
“Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals. — Do not slave holders wish to make the black man other kind? — animals with affections, imitation, fear of death, pain, sorrow for the dead. — respect.”
“The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!”
“I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
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