Downing didn't expect that his invention had received such a lot of negative feedback before the final answer was revealed, thanks to which he told such a moving story. Of course, the atmosphere of storytelling in the salon is of course different from the report on him in the Times, which has ulterior motives in the newspapers, but anyone who listened to his story in the little Dutch house that night felt that it was nothing to control childbirth, and wasn't it so that the children could receive better care, a better education, and a better environment? Do you say that a poor couple who have four or five children can take care of them?

Of course, his Telegraph did not engage in heated debates, let alone wars, and he had already set the rules for the Telegraph to publish only those facts, without any ideological involvement. As a result, the heated debate became a public opinion war between the Times and the "Daily News" edited by his good friend Foster, with the support of the Rothschild family on the one hand, and the iron king on the other, the telegraph king is not mentioned, the lawsuit is hot, the British telegraph company is also fighting fiercely, and the government is not opened by the Rothschilds, so the representative directors of the government in BT are also entangled under the joint pressure of the two forces.

In the atmosphere full of gunpowder, Christmas is here, everyone take a breath and fight again another day!

Last Christmas, Downing was thinking about how to clean up the sewers at home, it was too miserable, and today he wanted to be lively and invite students from Cambridge University to celebrate the festival together. Of course, not every student is qualified, and must understand the principle of Babbage's analysis machine, and Professor Babbage has designed a small problem that can be completed in ten minutes, and qualified students can have Christmas dinner together, and there is a mysterious repertoire suitable for these top students.

Downing also invited a few friends who often got along in the little Dutch house, and his intention was of course to hope to spend more time with the big beautiful earl, and invited other partners to hide people's eyes.

Downing is a unique 27-year-old professor at Cambridge University, called "Professor Tuesday", because he usually only teaches a number theory class on Tuesday for one day, of course, he is an associate professor, according to Cambridge custom, there can only be one full professor in a certain field, and everything else can only be an associate professor no matter how high the level. Number theory is an ancient branch, and the full professor has long been occupied, and it is impossible to remove him.

Professor Tuesday is also a big local tyrant professor, can the Christmas dinner he organized not be sumptuous? Due to his strong appeal, some students who had already made arrangements also came to join in the fun. At this time, there were no girls in Cambridge, and the stunned teenagers all swallowed their saliva when they saw the beautiful Earl and other ladies. Other ladies include several young girls from the famous Patel family, who produced beautiful women, to add to the Christmas dinner.

Of course, the Patel family also has a not-so-pretty Juliet? Mrs. Cameron is an excellent portrait photographer and sister-in-law of the owner of the little Dutch house. The salon of the Little Holland House has a Leica given by Downing, they will take pictures at almost every party, and Mrs. Cameron always rushes to do this errand, she is really good, she is not a beauty, but she can take beautiful pictures, a photo of Downing's collection of Eugenie is from Mrs. Cameron, he was excited, and also gave a Leica to Mrs. Cameron to give her better and more opportunities to exercise.

Christmas has a very long history, but it didn't last long in England, because both Protestants and Puritans in England considered the holiday an invention of Catholicism and disparaged it as "the rags of the beasts". It wasn't until 1843 that Dickens wrote a comedy called "The Stingy God of Wealth", which was originally written only to settle a burning debt, and it became an instant sensation, selling out the first edition of 6,000 copies in just one week.

Due to the popularity of "Stingy God of Wealth", Christmas and the spiritual sentiments it contains have once again been taken seriously. Thomas, an English poet and humorist of Dickens's contemporary? In a review of the book published in January 1844, Hood said: "If the age-old tradition of Christmas and hospitality, and the social philanthropy it has built, are in danger of declining, it is this book that can be the mainstay of this storm." ”

Traditional Christmas is centered around the community and church, and Dickens framed it as family-centered, eating, drinking, dancing, playing, and charity in "Stingy Fortuna". At noon today, Downing spent time with more than 100 children in the London International School Park in Stobe Garden, more than 100 children are all Downing's adopted sons and daughters, the younger is only 5 years old, the older is 13 years old, all with his surname Windsor, all colors and accents, shouting "Happy Christmas Daddy!" "What a cute little genius, it almost made Downing not want to leave, but fortunately, Dumas will accompany the children at night.

Dumas burst into tears when he heard the words "Merry Christmas Daddy", because he was a mixed race between an African slave girl and an English father, and he didn't know how much discrimination he had suffered because he was a slave son since he was a child. The most famous of these is Balzac. Of course, they are mostly friends and sometimes they scold each other. Many aristocrats in Paris and some literary figures despised Alexandre Dumas's origins and ridiculed his slave surname. Have you ever heard of a Frenchman with the surname "Dumas", haven't you? In a literary salon, Balzac refused to clink glasses with Alexandre Dumas and arrogantly told him: "When my talent is exhausted, I will go and write the play." Dumas replied flatly: "Then you can start now!" Annoyed, Balzac insulted Alexandre Dumas further: "Before I write the script, please tell me about your ancestors - this is a wonderful subject!" Dumas replied angrily: "My father was a Creole, my grandfather was a black man, and my great-grandfather was a monkey; My home originated in the place where your family moved away. "Downing wasn't there at the time, otherwise he would probably explain to them in a serious way that we humans actually originated from monkeys......

The International School Park is a shocking place to admit orphan students of all colors, and Alexandre Dumas, who is of African descent, is the most moved, and he often goes to the International School Park to see his fellow children. Today's Christmas dinner is still the protagonist of the International School Park, because in addition to eating and drinking, Downing also has serious things to do with the students of Cambridge, so he will not accompany the children today.

Coincidentally, Cambridge University has a "Downing College", built in 1800, tsk, this name, Downing liked it at first sight, and he chose here to build a luxurious real yàn building for Cambridge University. The first phase of the project, which was a small project, was completed, using the same unmass-produced electric lighting and wind power system as the crystal factory, and at night, it was brightly lit and became the hottest building in Cambridge. The place where they hosted their dinner was in the small ballroom of the building.

After the students and VIPs were seated, Tang Ning delivered an opening speech: "Thank you, gentlemen and ladies for coming! It's not easy to have a good Christmas, and it's not easy to come here after the exam of Professor Babbage! And also...... There must be more than 40 people, thank you again, and you'll know why you should be tested first!

It is gratifying to see your young and energetic faces. Cambridge University is a great name, and studying here is a teenager's dream - I wish MIT could be as famous as Cambridge, so I don't have to be forced to ask where MIT is. ”

The students, who knew that Professor Downing had been forced by the media to ask where the mit was was pimple, chuckled quietly.

"I want all children to have access to education, and all bright children to go to college. The Times said there that I wanted to take the place of God, and in their opinion, it was unacceptable to control the timing of childbearing. I never argued with them, and I hated being a fool or a debater with ulterior motives. However, in the face of the students in Cambridge, I am willing to explain a few words. It's Christmas, and yet many of the Bible's flawed descriptions of the earth and the universe clearly don't reflect God's greatness.

I would like to make a judgment here, and I ask you to listen to it, because it will certainly provoke your philosophical reflection - God only created the most basic physical laws, and did not directly interfere with the life of a specific person, not at all, never. One of the most basic laws of God's creation is gravity. All matter is subject to gravity, there is no good or evil rule, gravity can make us stand on the earth with our feet on the ground, and it can also make climbers fall off cliffs. Can you imagine God pressing a billion people to the earth one by one with a billion hands? Of course this is not possible. Rules work the same for everything! God's rule is that sometimes it does good and sometimes it does bad. Can you imagine a good person who believes in the true God falling off a cliff and not dying? Of course it can't be, who has this divine power, let him come to me and throw it to me!

The rules for childbearing were created by God, but do you know how many mothers die in childbirth, and how many babies die within a month? St. George's Hospital has worked with me a lot, and their number is that more than 50 out of every 1,000 births result in the death of the mother. This is 5%, if you give birth to 4 children, what is the probability of your mother meeting the god of death, everyone calculates. And the mortality rate of babies is more than 200 per 1,000 babies. It's horrible. This is the real world under the rules, true charity, is to understand the rules that God created and make these rules for the benefit of mankind, so that mom and dad and baby are happier, instead of doing nothing and waiting like a fool for the gifts of the so-called benevolent God. Is procreation a matter of God's? Hmph, what's the difference between the Christian fundamentalists of the Times and the ignorance of the black tribes of Africa? What is the difference with the Indians?

Why is England a great country? Because we are good at understanding the rules of nature that God created zào, and we are good at changing the world. (http：／／.）。 If you do nothing and wait for God to give you alms, then James? Hargreaves would not have had to invent the Jenny spinning machine, Mr. Nawatt would not have had to improve the steam engine, and Mr. Brunel would not have had to build an ocean fringer.

Puerperal fever is the number one killer of pregnant women's deaths. In 1850, at a lecture of the Vienna Doctors' Association, Mr. Semmelweis, after reporting on the causes of puerperal fever and how to prevent it, announced that "it was the doctors' own contaminated hands and instruments that brought the disaster to the mothers". The doctors at the scene accused Semmelves of misleading the crowd, and it was difficult for them to accept that their own hands were the culprits of causing the mothers to suffer from puerperal fever, and this argument also greatly damaged the image of the doctors. Therefore, the medical profession is still unwilling to accept Semmelweis's inference, and this intransigence has brought endless suffering to countless pregnant women, and the shadow of falling into the ghost gate during childbirth lingers. The medical profession's contempt and ridicule of Semmelwes forced him to leave Vienna, where he died in a mental hospital.

This is the tragedy of ignorance and arrogance, and after feeling sorry for Mr. Semmelweis, I can tell you the good news that after the introduction of the sterilization procedure, St. George's Hospital and all the maternity hospitals that believe in my theory of microbial pathogenesis have basically eliminated puerperal fever. I hope that the gentlemen who scold me every day for their 'high morals' will think of me as a fool trying to replace God when their wives and daughters give birth safely. ”

The Cambridge students at the table burst into applause, and the "direct beneficiaries", the ladies from the Little Dutch House, burst into tears.