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1904,” in Ames,Life and Letters, 2: 530–531. Ames, a Unitarian minister, was not only
a close friend of the Lesleys but the father-in-law of their daughter.
- Lyman, “Biographical Notice,” 2: 473–475, 482. Since 1859 he had held a
nominal position as professor of mining at the University of Pennsylvania. - J. P. Lesley to Allen Lesley, February 15, 1867, in Ames,Life and Letters,2:17
(pantheist); Lesley to his son-in-law Charles, March 11, 1888, ibid., 2: 350–351 (God is
Nature). On Lesley’s connection to Unitarianism, see Ames, “A Memorial Discourse,”
2: 524; and Davis, “Biographical Memoir,” 166. On his belief in immortality, see Les-
ley to Susan Lesley, June 18, 1888, and June 24, 1890, Ames,Life and Letters, 2: 359,
393; and Lesley, “The Idea of Life after Death,”The Forum10 (1890–91): 207–215, - J. P. Lesley to Susan Lesley, July 8 and 9, 1880, quoted in Ames,Life and
Letters, 2: 253–255; Lesley, Letter to the Editor,Science10 (1887): 308–309; Lyman, “Bi-
ographical Notice,” 2:472–473. Davis paraphrased Lyman in his “Biographical Mem-
oir,” 215. Regarding Darwinism, see also Lesley’s essay in theUnited States Railroad
and Mining Register, December 13, 1873, quoted in Lyman, “Biographical Notice,” 472. - G. Frederick Wright,Story of My Life and Work(Oberlin, Ohio: Bibliotheca
Sacra, 1916), 116, 123, 132. See also Wright, “Recent Works on Prehistoric Archae-
ology,”Bibliotheca Sacra30 (1873): 381–384; and Wright,Studies in Science and Reli-
gion(Andover, Mass.: Warren F. Draper, 1882), 352–354. For Asa Gray’s views, see his
Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism, ed. A. Hunter Dupree (Cam-
bridge: Harvard University Press, 1963); and [G. F. Wright], Review ofLetters of Asa
Gray, ed. Jane Loring Gray,Bibliotheca Sacra51 (1894): 182. For Gray’s influence on
Wright, see G. F. Wright to Asa Gray, June 26, 1875, Archives, Gray Herbarium, Har-
vard University. This discussion of Wright is taken from Ronald L. Numbers, “George
Frederick Wright: From Christian Darwinist to Fundamentalist,”Isis79 (1988): 624–
645, and Numbers,The Creationists, 20–36. - Gray,Darwiniana, 130; G. Frederick Wright, “The Debt of the Church to Asa
Gray,”Bibliotheca Sacra45 (1888): 527. - George F. Wright, “Recent Works Bearing on the Relation of Science to Reli-
gion: No. II—The Divine Method of Producing Living Species,”Bibliotheca Sacra 33
(1876): 455, 466, 474, 487, 492–494. Wright stopped short of identifying himself as
“a disciple of Mr. Darwin or as a champion of his theory.” - Wright,Studies in Science and Religion, 347–350, 368–370.
- G. Frederick Wright, “Some Will-o’-the-Wisps of Higher Criticism,”Congre-
gationalist, March 12, 1891, 84. See also [Wright], “Professor Wright and Some of His
Critics,”Bibliotheca Sacra42 (1885): 352. About this time Green turned to B. B. War-
field and W. H. Green for help in accommodating estimates of human life on earth
that exceeded the six thousand years commonly attributed to the Old Testament gene-
alogies. See G. Frederick Wright, “How Old Is Mankind?”Sunday School Times 55
(January 25, 1913): 52; Wright, “Recent Discoveries Bearing on the Antiquity of Man,”
Bibliotheca Sacra48 (1891): 309. On Warfield, see Livingstone and Mark A. Noll,
“B. B. Warfield (1851–1921): A Biblical Inerrantist as Evolutionist,”Isis91 (2000): 283– - On Green, see Ronald L. Numbers, “ ‘The Most Important Biblical Discovery of
Our Time’: William Henry Green and the Demise of Ussher’s Chronology,”Church
History69 (2000): 257–276. - G. Frederick Wright, “The First Chapter of Genesis and Modern Science,”