Dec 26, 2009

A Tale of Two Cities | Compare and Contrast

1780s: At the end of the period known as the Enlightenment, most educated people believed that the universe was essentially knowable and operated by fixed laws capable of being understood by human beings.

1850s: With the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859), conservative Victorians launched a backlash of religious fervor that spoke against scientific progress.

Today: With technological advances such as space travel and cloning, modern science appears to be able to correct...