"...any full doctrine on evolution, gave it an impulse by suggesting a view contrary to the sacrosanct belief in the immutability of species — that is, to the pious doctrine that every species in the world now exists as it left in the hands of the creator, the naming process by Adam, and the door of Noah’s Ark."
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Gottfried Leibniz in: Popular Science Vol. 45, No. 1, Bonnier Corporation, May 1894, p. 7.
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Sacrosanct
Sacrosanct means beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction, and inviolable. The term is derived from the phrase sacer esto ("let him be accursed") and reflects that violation of a tribune's sacrosanctity was not only a secular offense, but a religious offense as well.
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