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Annie Besant: Death
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Besant relies heavily on the ante-Nicene fathers to support her claim. In the time between the death of Jesus and the imposition of conformity by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 A.D., there was not a definite “approved” Christianity. The writings of the ante-Nicene fathers contain important amplifications on what Christianity actually is. Subsequent to the imposition of conformity in 325 A.D., Christianity was “dumbed down” for the masses. Christianity was vulgarized, but not by St. Paul. Christianity, after the Council of Niceae, descended into “so-called simplicity, so that the most ignorant might be able to grasp it.” (Besant, op. cit.)
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Mrs. Besant was now fairly launched. She was a lady unattached, with a baby daughter to look after, and a small annuity. She went to live with her mother, who was ... in straitened circumstances, and passed through the usual dismal experience of the gentlewoman seeking employment. She found little work of the paying kind, except occasional nursing, and the writing of free-thought pamphlets. After a year her mother sickened and came near to death. This brought Mrs. Besant into personal contact with another of the famous Churchmen of the Victorian era, and her description of her visit to Dean Stanley is a fitting pendant and contrast to that which she gave of her visit to Dr. Pusey.
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On the second day of the trial, Besant recounted how Darwin identified natural selection applied to humans with Malthus's "positive check", famine, starvation and death. She quotes the passage from Darwin in which he denied the possibility of "prudential restraint" among agents subject to natural selection:
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