Archibald Henderson, head of the University of North Carolina's mathematics department, spoke of "America's debt of lasting gratitude to the great Raleigh, promulgator of the .
Alfred Russel Wallace, co-promulgator with Darwin of the theory of evolution, even suggested that among some of the lower forms of life the process of being eaten might be mildly .
Returning from one proselyting campaign, Young found the Prophet shot dead by some Illinoisians who had chosen to regard him as a promulgator of "abominations and whoredoms.