"Among the Spartans all newly born children were……" — Ernst Haeckel
"Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any bodily infirmity, were killed. Only the perfectly healthy and strong children were allowed to live, and they alone afterwards propagated the race."
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Ernst Haeckel
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23 Quotes by Ernst Haeckel
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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other.…
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Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the…
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Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny.
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Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
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