Happy Birthdays
Two hundred years ago on this date two men were born in very different circumstances but managed to significantly affect their worlds.
One was born into a well-to-family in Shropshire, England and was afforded all of the advantages of education and leisure, but he chose to wander the world in search of knowledge and managed to formulate a theory that is basic to understanding life on earth. That was Charles Darwin.
On the same day as son was born into a less than prosperous farm family in Kentucky who was able to receive barely any formal education, and had to work hard to put food on the table. He educated himself, and became a lawyer and politician. That was Abraham Lincoln.
Both have suffered for being both praised and cursed for thoughts they did not have, and for having the thoughts and ideas they did have distorted by both friends and enemies.
They have achieved the only immortally anyone can really expect, people still remember their names, even if many are a bit fuzzy about what they actually did.
