"About the end of the eighteenth century fruitful suggestions and even clear presentations of this or that part of a large evolutionary doctrine came thick and fast, and from the most divergent quarters. Especially remarkable were those which came from Erasmus Darwin in England, from Maupertuis in France, from Oken in Switzerland, and from Herder, and, most brilliantly of all, from Goethe in Germany."
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Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896)
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Johann Gottfried Herder
1744 – 1803
deutscher Schriftsteller, Philosoph und Theologe
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