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  • Posted By: MTBeck @ 11/25/2009 8:49:51 PM

    Sumter*

  • Posted By: MTBeck @ 11/25/2009 8:46:52 PM

    I'm pretty sure that it was the Confederate firing upon Fort Sumner that started the war...
    If you read any of Lincoln's literature, the concern wasn't all about slavery, it was about preserving the Union. Lincoln was a Unionist first and formost

  • Posted By: MTBeck @ 11/25/2009 8:43:02 PM

    Actually, it was not Darwin, but Herbert Spencer who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest", and it was coined before Darwin published "Origins"

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