“If you can bring me one student whose faith I have injured in Mormonism, I will bring you five that you, through your narrowness, have driven out of the church.”

—  Ralph Vary Chamberlin

Response to BYU president George H. Brimhall, quoted in: Bergera, Gary James (1993). " The 1911 Evolution Controversy at Brigham Young University http://signaturebookslibrary.org/the-1911-evolution-controversy-at-brigham-young-university/". In: Sessions, Gene A.; Oberg, Craig J. The Search for Harmony: Essays on Science and Mormonism. Signature Books. p. 29

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