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  Archive    CHARLES DARWIN: A Powerful Legacy for Science and Art      `eawood (https://www.deviantart.com/eawood) eawood (https://www.deviantart.com/eawood)      :iconescykane: EscyKane (https://www.deviantart.com/escykane)      Darwins inheritance II Twitter Facebook Google+     February 12 marks Charles Darwin’s 206th birthday. His career was long and illustrious, and he conceived one of the most influential ideas of all time: the theory of evolution. This theory states that life on earth slowly changed and developed over millions of years, with each species passing along the traits that made them better suited to survive in their environments. This concept is commonly referred to as “survival of the fittest.”

Issue No. 5|Archives Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” in 1843, the story that has ever since come to embody, as has the entire legendary life of its author. The true spirit and eternal hope for a more prosperous and more just coming new year that the best sentiments of the winter holiday season have always been all about. Dickens was the champion of the poor and downtrodden, never forgetting the humiliation of his father being thrown into debtor’s prison, which precipitated the young boy’s forced abandonment of school in order to work in a factory. The illiterate poor returned Dickens’s love and affect