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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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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who…
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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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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable…
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...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but…
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As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality,…
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Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust…
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It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system…
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The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary…
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"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when…
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