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Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which…
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To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
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From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from…
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Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation…
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The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a…
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We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,…
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Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
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There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that…
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This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the…
— William Harvey
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe,…
— Arthur Balfour
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Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process
— Gerald Edelman
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The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.
— Aristotle
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
— Benjamin Cardozo
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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the…
— Aristotle
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So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving…
— Erasmus Darwin
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