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The Darwin and Lincoln Are Strangely Fits Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born in the same year, on the same day: Fe
The Darwin and Lincoln Are Strangely Fits Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born in the same year, on the same day: Fe
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The Darwin and Lincoln Are Strangely Fits
Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born in the same year, on the same day: Feb. 12, 1809. How’s this for a coincidence? Instinctively, we want to say that they belong together. It’s not just because they were both great men, and not because they happen to be exactly at the same age. Rather, it’s because the scientist and the politician each touched off a revolution that changed the world.
Lincoln and Darwin were both revolutionaries, in the sense that both men upended realities that prevailed when they were born. They seen—and sound—modern to us, because the world they left behind them is more or less the one we still live in. So, considering the joint magnitude of their contributions—and the coincidence of their conjoined birthdays—it is hard not to wonder: who was the greater man? It’s an apples and-oranges—or Superman-vs; Santa—comparison. But if you limit the question to influence, it bears pondering, all the more if you turn the question around and ask, what might have happened if one of these men had not been born? Very quickly the balance tips in Lincoln’s favor. Great as Darvin’s book on evolution is, it does no harm to remember that he hurried to publish "The Origin of Species" because he thought he was about to be scooped (抢先) by his fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who had independently come up with much the same idea of evolution through natural selection. In other words, there was a certain inevitability to Darwin’s theory. Ideas about evolution surfaced thoroughout the first part of the 19th century, and while none of them was as conclusive as Darwin’s, it was not as though he was the only man who had the idea.
Lincoln, in contrast, is unique. Take him out of the picture, and there is no telling what might have happened to the country. True, his election to the presidency did provoke secession and, in turn, the war itself, but that war seems inevitable—not a question of if but when. If Darwin were not so irreplaceable as Lincoln, that should not deny his accomplishment. No one could have formulated his theory any more elegantly—or anguished more over its implications. Like lincoln, Darwin was brave. He risked his health and his reputation to advance the idea that we are not over nature but a part of it. Lincoln prosecuted a war—and became its ultimate casualty—to ensure that no man should have dominion over another. Their identical birthdays afford us a superb opportunity to observe these men in the shared context of their time—how each was shaped by his circumstances, how each reacted to the beliefs that steered the world into which he was born and ultimately how each reshaped his corner of that world and left it irrevocably changed.
What is the major reason for the author to put Lincoln and Darwin into the same sort?
选项
A、They were both great men at their age.
B、They were born at the same age.
C、Their birthdays are coincidently the same.
D、They both changed the world irrevocably.
答案
D
解析
根据题干关键词reason,the same sort定位到原文首段第三句和最后一句:Instinctively,we want to say that they belong together.Rather,it’s because the scientist and the politician each touched off a revolution that changed the world.我们认为他们是同类人,更确切地说,这是因为作为科学家和政治家,他们分别掀起了一场革命,改变了世界。由此可知,最主要的原因是他们改变了世界,故选D项。A项“他们都是当时的伟大人物”和B项“他们生活在同一个时代”,并不是最主要的原因;C项“他们的生日很巧都一天”是事实,但是并非作者所提到的原因。
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