@Quehoniaomath,
It is likely that Spengler's claim that the idea of evolution derived from the English factory system comes from his knowing that members of the Lunartic Society were industrialists and professional men on the way up.
It's main principle was "freedom of speech". Well--it would be wouldn't it?
No doubt they meant that they were free to say anything but not everybody was. Poets and dramatists had to dress up the facts of life in codes and symbols and had they not done the Lunartics would have been down on them like a ton of bullshit. What with them having little dickies too.
Just because all the depictions of them that we have show them with lace cuffs and looking important and all intellectual like does not mean that they never stood before a lowly splayed housemaid with their erections sticking up out of their breeches. Alpha males should mate most.
Which lets us lot out. (phew!!).
Dawkins probably scans the audience at his gigs looking for the most awe-struck admirer to invite backstage for further enlightenment. Speaking tours are lonely things. It's what I would do in his place.
