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/ "(But) in these torments endured by the faithful, Wendell Holmes had no     \
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| part. To him it mattered not that Darwin made the Garden of Eden a myth     |
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| and Jonah's whale a monster to frighten children... For Holmes the core had |
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| been taken out of Christian theology a generation ago, when the Unitarians  |
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| disavowed the doctrine of original sin. Man lost his fear of hell-fire -    |
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| and on that day gave back Christian doctrine to the preacher as irrelevant  |
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| to life. After that, disbelief in Genesis I was a small thing. Wendall      |
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| Holmes had achieved it without the least struggle. He was born to it."      |
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| [Oliver Wendell Holmes, from "Yankee From                                   |
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| Olympus - Justice Holmes and His Family,"                                   |
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\ 1945, by Catherine Drinker Bowen]                                           /
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