Civilization Quote by Ernst Haeckel

“Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.” quote by Ernst Haeckel — Download Open image

“Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical…

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