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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who…
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
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There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which…
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For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often…
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The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite…
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than…
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Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that…
— James Boswell
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Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is…
— John Montgomery Ward
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