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• During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
• Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they…
• When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think…
• The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
• Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
• A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
• No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that…
• The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious…
• If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If…
• A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will…
• People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
• Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.

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