Lincoln PK Darwin: Who is more cattle

Lincoln (left) and Darwin are revolutionaries, they subvert them at the time of birth in the social realities still prevailing. However, no one more great » If you stay in the influence of the thinking on the issue, will naturally feel puzzled. If you turn asked the two individuals, there is a will there were not what » The answer quickly biased in favour of the balance of Lincoln.

Two people experience similar to the early years, Taiqiwancheng
This is a coincidence? » Darwin and Lincoln the same year-on the same day Health: February 12, 1809. With the passage of historical fact, such a coincidence is not so important. Everyone knows, Darwin and Lincoln the 19th century is nearly mythical figure, but who will they put together a consideration » Who will the theory of evolution and the United States on the same level civil war » Get rid of you happen to write in a 19th century Timeline of monographs, why would you put them together » However, from instinct, we would like to say that they belong together. This is not because they are great people, not because they are contemporaries, but because they are trigger a revolution to change the world scientists and politicians.

You start to compare this weird two people, you will find that this birthday than the coincidence of Stars (as Aquarius, they should are strong, imaginative, tolerant, have the spirit of freedom, of treason) implicit含着more. When they shared the birth of the eve of the anniversary, has a book to the two of them together Li Chuan, historian David Kangtuosita of "treason giant" in the next year and the upcoming publication of the New York writer Adam Gepunike the double biography, and not digging any new things, he wrote a total of Double-sufficient for us to a new look at every one of them. Both men have lost their childhood in his mother; two people have been suffering from depression, and even Darwin suffered a painful state of stomach illness and chronic headaches; two people are suspected by the religious spirit of the distress; two people and the tension between his father and they Their children have Zaoyao; two people will be 20-year-old golden age to use in solving his career, in the middle-aged people, no one showed signs of the next great man. Darwin, 50, published his "Origin of Species", one year after Lincoln won the presidency. Two people are secretive and wary of full, Darwin, the majority of friendship through letters in the past, the young man rarely left his countryside home in the United Kingdom. Although Lincoln is a public figure, but the carefully cultivated image of the Xiang Balao to friends and enemies have underestimated him as a politician close to Machiavelli-style skills.

Lincoln and Charles Darwin was born in the era of today, we seem eccentric. In the day they were born, the United States third president, Thomas Jefferson's second presidential term left three weeks; Britain's King George III also sit tight in the throne; Enlightenment give way to Romanticism. God created the world at that time also occupy the center of faith in people, men are masterpieces of the Creator. Slavery is still accepted by the people, such as New York state until 1827 before slavery was abolished in Britain in 1772 slavery was declared illegal, but in the British colony to 1833 were not repealed.

Two people are self-taught
In our understanding of scientists - are highly trained experts, by the use of such esoteric vocabulary career, and he / she can only talk with other scientists - at least Darwin is not really started. Almost single-handedly redefined the biology of Darwin, an amateur naturalist is only the beginning of Jurists, a Beatles collectors, a favorite hunting the rich 22-year-old amateur art lovers, initially dreamed of becoming a physicist, and then it wants to become a - Pastor, he as a good captain out in the protection of those on the list before they are allowed to take "Berger", sailing out. His father ordered him not to boat trips, in addition to his long list of Haowumubiao worried that the exploration list of nothing. As early as in a few years ago, his father had reprimanded his young son: "You in addition to hunting, dog and rat catching, do not care about what you will become your own and your family all the shame." His father, how Can be expected, when the son of navigation in five years after the landing, he not only got rid of the loss of life goals volatile, and replace it with a doubt the scientific spirit and sense of curiosity and a focus on work Zhisibuyu People » Darwin also has a grasp of such subversive ideas, and his future are in a 20 dominated by such thinking. But the important thing is that he has done all this alone. He did not become the subject of the graduate school of education under the great scientists of the modern model. Darwin may be very rich individuals, but on his career, he is a self-taught person.

Lincoln is the more traditional sense of self-taught person. Like Darwin, Lincoln is not a quick study of people, these two individuals have a discipline Duting time-consuming, but they have a tireless thirst thinking. Age children receive education after the school year, Lincoln began a self-learning. He mastered the measurement of 1.30, he read the works of Blackstone to become a lawyer. He recited the Bible and Shakespeare's classic sentence. 40-year-old, he has spent one term in the House, the Lincoln study Euclidean geometry, as a means of tempering thinking. Soon rumors of his multi-up - he was born in a dirty floor of the cabin, the worst of marriage, the poor in the race on the issue of inappropriate comments. He was on the spread of these terrible joke. But he is very humorous: "I experienced a lot of ridicule, not without malicious and I have many good intentions, not without sarcasm, and I used to these."

Perhaps, this enigmatic of the most incredible place, how is he to the United States to become the best essayist. His article graceful eloquence, no matter how many times you read his words are often read often new. Darwin wrote a small number of scientific papers, perhaps only a worthy read as literary works. Qudu of these two individuals to the original, not the notes, because these two are more personal essays. Reading these essays will be able to better understand these elusive figure. Given their great, you need to know them.

Two people have "obsessive-compulsive disorder"
Darwin hands Na Zhaobi will appear only thinking, he is a force of the notes and list out those. In his future wife to marry him before he had details of the marriage The Whole Story. He published the first book, "Berger navigation in mind" is the logbook of the Decoration version of it, he ceaselessly traveling around the world record of the five-year journey, and along the way to see or collection of plants and animals.

"Berger navigation in mind" and his diary, Chuchumaolu Darwin look like the journalists, asking questions, notes, as in South America, Australia or the Cape Verde Islands discovered species - whether living or fossil -- Overjoyed. But he left Berger in 1836 when he had no doubt that, and contrary to popular knowledge, life is not static, constant change and species evolution. He did not want to understand is this process of control mechanisms. Until two years later, in reading the economist Malthus on human needs caused by overpopulation compete for resources this point of view, he conceived the idea of natural selection.

Found in his pleasure at the same time, Darwin also feel fear, because he knows that the consequences of their own theory. Human life is no longer the top, but it's part of the machinery and the Creator is no purpose. In a letter to peer scientists, Darwin himself believed in the theory that "like the murderers of repentance." He did not hurry to publish his theory, but be retained for 20 years.

Read "Origin of Species," you feel he's you as an equal partner with you in on. He never dictatorship, has never Zhigaoqiyang. On the contrary, he was always willing to admit he did not know or do not understand things. When he raised a question, never Guaiwanmojiao, he looks really want to know the answer.

He is also a good salesman, said he was aware of what their readers are not so common trouble, but they are not difficult to understand, therefore, his efforts not to lose their readers. Darwin's theory works never to start, but from home-the introduction of the theme. Darwin's ideological and generous tolerance, always to those who hold different views to maintain respect, you think, after all, he is a can believe in God the Creator and married men.

Like Darwin, Lincoln is also an obsessive-compulsive disorder graffiti, always in the paper hastily written on a number of statements, notes and ideas, and then stuffed into coat Douli, into a drawer or Saidao in the Hat. When he found them in the letter, written statements or when drafting the document useful to him, they will collect out. He is also a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder Revised by that he knew the words and say it sounds different. 1861 farewell speech he delivered after boarding the train back to Washington and immediately published in the rush to amend Gaozi ago. Getttysburg famous speech is obviously a similar manner latest.

Lincoln with 29 words, on account of him to come to the end of Getttysburg purposes, he defines the Federation for the purpose of the war: "87 years ago, our ancestors in this continent to create a free conceived in the new nation. They advocated human beings are born equal, and for this purpose and dedication. "In the next sentence, he said:" Now we are conducting a great civil war, this is a test of this country or any one such as ours conceived in Free and abide by its advocates to whether the countries in the long war. "Words alone 272, he will state the principles set out so thoroughly that today, people naturally become the accepted principle.

Lincoln's political talent is based on two pillars: his own in a specific time to do what the sober strange tenure, he Then there are the environmental change their thinking ability. The precise wording of his deep, sonorous strong, sharp and to express their ideas, like Mark Twain, created a style of the United States today: Frankly direct, Yiyangduncuo, Gangjin powerful and beautiful but not Yinrou. As Douglas Wilson in "Lincoln's Sword", commented that Lincoln is not the politicians writer, but he like Thoreau, American-style will understand perfectly expressed.

Compared with Darwin, Lincoln is unique
Lincoln and Charles Darwin are revolutionaries, they subvert them at the time of birth in the social realities still prevailing. Therefore, in view of their contribution to the great, and their birthday coincidence, it is difficult not a doubt: Who even greater » This is apples and oranges, or Superman and Santa Claus comparison. If you stay in the influence of the thinking on the issue, will naturally feel puzzled. If you set aside influence of the question, instead ask, if these two individuals, there is a will there were not what »

The answer quickly biased in favour of the balance of Lincoln. Although Darwin's theory detonated Jingtian, despite the evolution of his work is very great, but we will not be innocuous to forget that he To keep this theory by other scientists snatched, impatient Huoliao and published his "Origin of Species," because at that time scientists Wallace also made the same evolutionary thinking. In other words, Darwin's theory of evolution there is inevitable, as early as the theory of evolution from the early 19th century emerged on the surface of the water, just not as complete portrait of Darwin, until the Pistons put this theory.

On the contrary, the Lincoln is unique. If he has to pull in a picture of history, the United States do not know what will happen. Indeed, he was elected president to accelerate the arrival of the war, but sooner or later come to the war. Once he became the president, he is an integral part of the people. He is the commander of the actual war, Lincoln commanding victory in the war on the north is essential. Lincoln for the war made life, we also know what happened after his death: racial equality issues and problems of the United States a century. Here again want to say is that Lincoln be said, his remarks are still inspires Americans. Despite our efforts, but he will never be for us all to understand, according to estimates, he wrote the book than any other person to write the book should be more, with the exception of Jesus Christ.

Therefore, PK answer is: Lincoln wins.