The following is rare footage of the Huxley vs. Wilberforce debate. Wilberforce, the one in pink, appears to be on top but he clearly has no chance against the brilliant Huxley.
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Brilliant!
With Huxley’s Vulcan neck grip, Wilberforce didn’t stand a chance.
If Huxley could converse in English right now, he would say:
“Daaaaaaaaad! you keep putting me in embarrassing videos…
…and you’re showing to whom?
Stop it.”
Don’t forget to archive those pictures and videos. Some day a 16yo Huxley will want to get a whole-body tattoo, take up toad licking (for spiritual reasons), and move to a commune to eat organic quantum-laser-tuned wheat grass juice, and worship the latest incarnation of “The Great One” … and the leverage will come in handy.
Cute. Thanks. The perfect start to a relaxing evening.
That bear must have been heavy. The poor little tyke is breathing hard.
He’s got a cold. In this case, it turns out to be a special effect.
Cold nothing. He was clearly trying to take Wilberforce’s head off! I don’t normally encourage debates to get violent like this one, though I have to admit it was entertaining to watch.
This is off-topic, but Greg, I wondered if you know of the economic historian Gregory Clark?
He has written a new paper claiming, for instance:
“First, England, all the way from the heart of the Middle Ages in 1200 to 2009, is a society without persistent social classes, at least among the descendants of the medieval population. It was a world of complete social mobility, with no permanent over-class and under-class, a world of complete equal opportunity.”
Anyway, here is a post about the paper:
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/02/social-mobility-in-the-longrun.html
The comments make interesting reading, and Clark himself shows up.