It is not so long ago, as years are reckoned, that a scientist in a physical or chemical laboratory was popularly regarded as a magician engaged in unlawful pursuits, or as in impious converse ...
Here, Darwin borrows a term from the Book of Genesis, "breathed." In later editions, he adds "by the Creator" to show there was nothing impious in his vision of nature.
Not only would the vast majority of his readership find his visionary slogan ridiculous--"We recognize but one race, THE HUMAN RACE"--they would find it grossly evil, implying the impious horror of ...
The discovery of the Magdala Stone, as the artifact has come to be called, struck a death blow to the once fashionable notion that Galileans were impious hillbillies detached from Israel’s ...
These were celebrated every summer, sometimes in full campaign season, and it was considered impious to interrupt them. The Athenian view of Sparta oscillated between admiration and fear ...