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in spite of recent criticism it now
And, further, the idea of natural selection has so effectively opened the door of research and stimulated observation in a score of principal directions that, even if the Darwinian explanation became one day much less convincing than, in spite of recent criticism, it now is, yet its passing, supposing it to pass, would leave the doctrine of Evolution immeasurably and permanently strengthened.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

in steamboats of really comfortable if not
Moreover, for beauty, either of the dainty and popularly picturesque sort, or of the supremely grand, it has preëminence, and one can journey its whole length, from Killaloe, {105} THE SHANNON AND ITS LAKES {106} practically a suburb of Limerick, to Carrick-on-Shannon, something over a hundred miles, in steamboats of really comfortable, if not exactly luxurious, appointments.
— from Romantic Ireland; volume 2/2 by Blanche McManus


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