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“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of…

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“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held to be evidence that the watch was specially contrived to that end; on the ground, that the only cause we know of, competent to produce such an effect as a watch which shall keep time, is…

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“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which that culture is conveyed, and with its necessary concomitant, a constant elevation of the standard of veracity, the end of the evolution of theology will be like its beginning—it will cease to have any relation to…

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“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like…

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“There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally numerous contemporary…

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“When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an…

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“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about…

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