M B Roberts wrote on "Belly Buttons" and referenced the
book OMPHALOS, by Gosse. This book is again in print; I will
be writing a short review of it for PERSPECTIVES this month.
As Roberts observes, "sadly, too few people have read this book."
I did not know, BTW, that Gosse left the Plymouth Brethern because of their
liberal approach to scripture. Can you give me a source for this?
I have heard also that Gosse, following the 1859 publication
by Darwin, realized his "mistake" and tried mightily to buy up
all copies of OMPHALOS and remove it from the world
altogether. Thankfully, he did not succeed.
Burgy
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