Darwinism, as its shrewder opponents realized, let open the floodgates to something far more serious than the undermining of the Biblical account of … - John Fowles

" "

Darwinism, as its shrewder opponents realized, let open the floodgates to something far more serious than the undermining of the Biblical account of the origins of man; its deepest implications lay in the direction of determinism and behaviourism, that is, towards philosophies that reduce morality to a hypocrisy and duty to a straw hut in a hurricane.