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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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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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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…
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I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the…
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