Current Issue March 2014 magazine cover  Save 81% off the
newsstand price!  Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin helped
shape the modern world. (Illustration by Joe Ciardiello)  How
Lincoln and Darwin Shaped the Modern World  Born on the same
day, Lincoln and Darwin would forever influence how people think
about the modern world  We are all pebbles dropped in the sea of
history, where the splash strikes one way and the big tides run
another, and though what we feel is the splash, the splash takes
place only within those tides. In almost every case, the
incoming current drowns the splash; once in a while the drop of
the pebble changes the way the ocean runs. On February 12, 1809,
two boys were born within a few hours of each other on either
side of the Atlantic. One entered life in a comfortable family
home, nicely called the Mount, that still stands in the leafy
English countryside of Shrewsbury, Shropshire; the other opened
his eyes for the first time in a nameless, long-lost log cabin
in the Kentucky woods. C