I once had a little monkey for twelve years in my home, and
he was my very best argument for Darwin, because to be descended from such a
nice being is just wonderful.
C.F. von Weizsacker,
quoted in Cosmos, Bios Theos (ed. Henry
Margenau and Roy and Abraham Varghese), p. 130
In the time of R. Simcha Zissel of Kelm, Darwin was influential.
R. Simcha Zissel said: “Darwin claims that Man came from ape. It is befitting
for Darwin to say such a thing, for he never saw a person! I saw R. Yisrael
[Salanter], and therefore I know that Man does not come from an ape!”
R. Shlomo Wolbe, Alei Shur II, p. 79 (my translation)
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