Errors Quote by Sophie Swetchine

“Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.”

Sophie Swetchine

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Errors Giving Hybrid Life May Mean Offspring Portions Produce Race Truth

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