TOBY PETZOLD

On this day in 1809 were born the two most consequential men of the Nineteenth Century, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin.

Ever since I noticed that fact, I have regarded it as much as any atheist can regard such a coincidence as a manifestation of Providence. Which is to say that it is.

Happy birthday, gentlemen. Thank you for the world in which I live.

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