Gila trout, native only to headwater streams that vein over the Mogollon Rim of New Mexico and Arizona, have expressed in their genetic makeup a mapping of how to survive in the vestiges of what surely was a large and contiguous range.
The Magna Carta was a significant influence on the long  historical process that has resulted in the rule of constitutional  law today.    The Magna Carta came about because King John (who only became king  in 1199 when his brother King Richard I died) had a reputation for  being tyrannical. His reign was marred by continuous war losses,  beginning with the loss of Normandy to Philippe Auguste of France  and ending with England torn by civil war.
Voltaire's response to Leibniz is similar to Johnson's: Go out and look at the world, Voltaire tells us over and over in Candide. Candide, often considered to be Voltaire's masterpiece, tells the story of a na ve (or candid, from which he gets his name) young man who grows up in the German province of Westphalia.Voltaire 2). Voltaire also pokes fun at Leibniz's doctrine of sufficient reason at the beginning of the book by putting Pangloss in a compromising position with the baron's wife's chamber-maid; he describes the force of repeated experiments, the causes, the reasons, and the effects.