Comments on: Disgusted with Darwin, but Bacon’s okay–mostly

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By: Juvenile Instructor » Marginal Dialogues: The B. H. Roberts Memorial Library

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:59:22 +0000

[...] lead and post my MHA paper (in 2 parts) here. Since I already blogged my intro previously–on Joseph Fielding Smith’s reading of Darwin–I’ll skip that and proceed right into the Roberts [...]

By: BHodges

BHodges — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:35:11 +0000

Great little nugget, thanks for this interesting post.

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:47:37 +0000

I know someone who had seen McKay’s copy of Man: His Origin and Destiny. As it is hearsay, I won’t go into details, but I was mightily entertained.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:25:21 +0000

Chris: One collection I would love to see is Talmage’s reference books from when he was writing Jesus the Christ.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:11:56 +0000

iirc = “if I remember correctly.” Keep in mind, Stan, that David has been around this bloggernacle much longer than you or I and thus is familiar with all the abbreviations and lingo.

I am curious as to what other personal libraries would yield marginalia and notes as interesting as Roberts or JFS? Bruce R. McConkie maybe?

By: stan

stan — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:03:02 +0000

Jared: No prob, dude.

Justin: Thanks for looking that up.

Matt B.: True–if I would have found endorsement of Darwin’s views in the margins I would have been skeptical and assumed they were added later by someone else; or I would have written an article on multiple personalities associated with prophetic mantles (only prophet when acting as one) or something like that.

David: what’s iirc? And yes, though I don’t plan on doing an entire thesis on this (metaphysical religion is still just too alluring to let go of), I do have an article or two in the workings; and, though I was already planning on viewing the Roberts collection to look for significant marginalia in his copy of Spencer’s First Principles before Welch mentioned the idea (I had just become aware of the collection the day before Welch presented to the seminar), he did mention the suitability of the topic for a thesis, so some recognition would surely be in order.

By: Jared*

Jared* — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:18:34 +0000

Oh, Sweet! Thanks for the write-up.

By: Matt B

Matt B — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:32:41 +0000

This is interesting, but not in fact surprising. The fundamentalists loved (and still love) Bacon – he fits right into their worldview, which is tremendously rational and inductive, if you accept their premises.

Darwin is a different matter entirely. He asks us to believe in something we can’t hold in front of us like we can the Bible.

Given JFS’s collaboration with fundamentalists like George McCready Price (Ronald Numbers’s book _The Creationists_ documents their correspondence) we should almost expect this sort of thing.

By: David Grua

David Grua — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:33:52 +0000

Stan, why does it not surprise me that you’re considering yet another disseration idea? I think that you’ll have to mention Jack Welch in your acknowledgements if you do write on Roberts’ marginalia, since iirc it was he that first suggested that a dissertation be written on the topic.