"If we range through the whole territory of……" — Joseph Paxton
"If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford."
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Joseph Paxton
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may…
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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ,…
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