George Chatterton-Hill
Overview
 
George Chatterton-Hill was the Irish
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 writer of several books on evolution
Evolution
Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...

 and sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

. He wrote at the start of the 20th century, when the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance...

's work, had created turmoil over Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

's theory of evolution by natural selection
Natural selection
Natural selection is the nonrandom process by which biologic traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. It is a key mechanism of evolution....

. He was also very influenced by the writings of Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era....

 regarding evolution and society, and of Benjamin Kidd
Benjamin Kidd
Benjamin Kidd was a British sociologist. He entered the British civil service and did not become generally known until the publication of an essay, Social Evolution, in 1894...

 regarding society and religion.

He emphasises the impossibility of liberalism
Liberalism
Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...

, which recommends individual freedom insofar as it does not restrict the individual freedom of others.
Quotations

The players have got to know that we are not firing by the seat of our pants.

Jun-2005, DCFC website

If that's foreign strength or that's English strength, it doesn't matter to me.

Jun-2005, DCFC website

I've got to try and educate not only the players but the Derby fans and the board of directors that...

29-Jun-2005, Radio 5

If we stand still, we're going backwards. We've got to keep moving forward and appear to be moving forward.

29-Jun-2005, Radio Derby

They know, in that changing room, that the strength is that changing room.

30-Jun-2005, Radio Derby

The way they questioned my decisions was absolutely disgraceful.

1-Oct-2005, Radio Derby

There was pride in the shirt. There was sweat in the shirt. There was blood in the shirt.

1-Oct-2005, Radio Derby

I asked for 11 men and I asked for 5 men as substitutes.

1-Oct-2005, Radio Derby

You've got a good manager.

1-Oct-2005, Radio Derby

If I get the good pictures I was getting at the beginning of the season, Lee Holmes will be knocking at the door.

5-Oct-2005, DCFC website

 
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