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from The Century Dictionary.
- Preceding the time of Charles Darwin: noting, specifically, the doctrines or opinions of biologists at an earlier date than that of the publication of Darwin's “Origin of Species.”
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The whole research into pre-darwinian, pre-freudian literature and cultural production in general suggests to me that people and not least bourgeois women were rattling the cage quite a lot though rather invisible to the public eye in more or less private circles.
Civicus 2006
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