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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 habits, general intelligence,…
- Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the…
- It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting…
- Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except…
- A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of…
- Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable…
- The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly…
- Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly…
- The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered…
- Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual…
- Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
- I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity;…
- Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.
- From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in…
- Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
- It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have…
- We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest…
- With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process…
- [Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No…
- The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be…
- I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men
- Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
- Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.
- Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
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