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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…
• Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
• If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
• So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
• I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who…
• History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts…
• It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I…
• 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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