Labels:text | letter | screenshot OCR: RELATED ESSAYS Senseless Signs of History CHAPTER SEVEN Oddities of Nature Senseless Signs of History V Here Goes Nothing Of Kiwi Eggs & the Liberty Bell (From The Panda's Thumb) The Ant & the Plant The Panda's Thumb LECTURE Senseless Signs of History NAVIGATION Words provide clues about their history when etymology does not match current meaning. Thus, we suspect that emoluments were once fees paid to the local miller (from the Latin molere, to grind), while disasters must have been blamed upon evil stars. Evolutionists have always viewed linguistic change as a fertile field for meaningful analogies. Charles Darwin, advocating an evolutionary interpretation for such vestigial structures as the human appendix and the embryonic teeth of whalebone whales, wrote: "Rudimentary organs may be co ...
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