Though its accuracy has in more recent times been disputed, in its own century it was admired and held authoritative, even in England; it inspired the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Constitution of the United States.
Since Egnor is decades out of date and shows no sign of knowing anything at all about evolutionary biology in the 21st century, one wonders what could have inspired his declaration at this time.
Thomas Paine, whose writing inspired the Declaration of Independence, rejected all religions: "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of.
A great document, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, inspired by the American Declaration of Independence, embodies the sanctity of life and the human rights of all peoples, individually and collectively.
That was when Kim's declaration inspired surviving comfort women in Korea, China, and elsewhere to come forward with their stories.
A generation of writers and other artists have been inspired by its declaration that imagination, ambition and intelligence can and should be brought to bear on the Scottish experience.
WHEN the Doors formed back in the 1960's, the band chose a name inspired by this declaration by William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite".
He came to America in 1776 to fight in the war for independence, and was inspired by the declaration that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights".
His integration of individualism within the framework of the law of nature and his account of the origins and limits of legitimate government authority inspired the U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776) and the broad outlines of the system of government adopted in the U.S. Constitution.
Stravinsky's account of these effects in his autobiography, as told to Nouvel, immediately preceded, and inspired, the famous declaration there that the true value of music was not to be sought in its expressive dimension but in the sound patterns.
Inspired by the declaration of a computer-book publisher, Tim O'Reilly, that "obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy," it seemed better to publish a free version than have the work perish from lagging sales and advanced age -- a year for a computer application book can be an eternity.
