A very mysterious statement:
The momentous biological discoveries of the past generation have revealed the true workings of those hitherto mysterious laws of life on which, in the last analysis, all human activity depends.
!BBH
A very mysterious statement:
The momentous biological discoveries of the past generation have revealed the true workings of those hitherto mysterious laws of life on which, in the last analysis, all human activity depends.
!BBH
Prior to the civil war biology wasn't as well understood as it was by the end of the century.
There was a large advance in 'the sciences' during the last half of the 1800's.
Still quite new for Stoddard.