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qz20sq89r0d	Michael L. Kamen	The Science of the Bible in Nineteenth-Century America: From 'Common Sense' to Controversy, 1820-1900	2004		.txt	text/plain	349	11	17	Moreover, these debates provided one of the chief avenues by which historicist assumptions about human culture infiltrated American intellectual life: large numbers of Americans, both the educated and the ordinary, encountered the claims of historicism most directly or for the first time in the arena of conflict over biblical criticism. After 1870, concerns about the encroachments of philosophical naturalism, associated with Darwinian theory, exacerbated concerns about the naturalistic overtones of historical biblical criticism.	cache/qz20sq89r0d.txt	txt/qz20sq89r0d.txt