Puddle to Paradise - The Pilgrim’s Progress of Modernism
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- Title
- Puddle to Paradise - The Pilgrim’s Progress of Modernism
- Author
- Methodist
- Publication year listed
- 1925
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- Public domain eBook
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Puddle to Paradise - The Pilgrim’s Progress of Modernism
Author: B. H. Shadduck
Year: 1925
This is the second in a series of anti-evolution pamphlets by Methodist minister B. H. Shadduck (1869-1950), first printed in 1925 (2nd ed., 1928; 3rd ed., 1942). Illustrated by F. W. Alden of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Shadduck's pamphlets were especially popular during the era of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee, when debates over Darwinism and biblical faith were at the forefront of American culture. His first publication, Jocko-Homo ("ape-man") Heavenbound , was a runaway seller, going through ten reprintings and widely distributed throughout the United States and Canada. The Puddle to Paradise pamphlet satirizes modernist and evolutionary thought in the form of a mock "pilgrim's progress." Shadduck was motivated to write his anti-Darwinian series after seeing churches promote what he considered unbiblical theories of evolution—for example, the 1924 unveiling of The Chrysalis in a New York City church, a sculpture depicting a man emerging from an ape "cocoon."