"Worms have played a more important part in……" — Charles Darwin
"Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose."
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- Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
- Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
- Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
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- So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special…
- The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
- It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
- It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain…
- Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then…
- May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
- The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
- Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
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