thought for today

April 1, 2010

thought for today

Enthusiasm is the way

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chirf requirements of life, when all we need to make us real happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley.

Charles Kingsley was one othe most brilliant novelist of his time.   He was an Anglican clergyman, teacher and writer whose novels were widely read in the Vuctorian era.   His immensely popular novels were; Hypatta and Westward  Ho.  He was one of the first clergymen to accept wholeheartedly Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and n\Natural Selection.  His long populat children’s book The Water Babies was inspired by the thoughts on evolution.and he did much to encourage the interest in nature among the working people.

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