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 ::::Likewise! I think we have a reasonable basis now for moving forward. I've come across a footnote: ""For an indication of the popularity achieved by theistic evolutionism in the decade after the Origin of Species was published, see Alvar Ellegard, Darwin and the General Reader. The Reception of Darwin's Theoryof Evolution in the British Periodical Press, 1859-1873 (Goteburg: Acta Universitatis Gothenburgensis, 1958), esp. pp. 272-273."" but it appears that book content isn't online. Also, I'm coming to think this article would be better entitled ""theistic evolutionism"" ...  || "