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• In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent…
• In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and…
• It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed…
• Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect the world…
• I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
• To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which…
• There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of…
• What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
• Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race
• On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both…
• Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time
• What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in…

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