Pius the Ninth and Professor Owen
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Palaeontology, Religious Authority, Wonder |
Compares the reverence displayed by Pope Pius IX towards an alleged tooth of St Peter to Richard Owen's veneration of 'fossil remains'. | |
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