Prejudice

Most of the time, when you hear of the phrase prejudice, you automatically have a preconceived notion in your mind that it has to do with race, religion, etc. However in the opening of On the Origin of the Species, we come to understand that what Darwin intended to do with this piece of literature was not only to explain a new theory of existence, but also to debunk former beliefs and to "call attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views." (Darwin 157)