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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

Charles Darwin

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Evolution God
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Affection Heart Man Science Stone
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking
I am not the least afraid to die.
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Afraid Beast Die One Liner
Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Death Original Pursue
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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Adapt Advantage Change Environment Fundamental Identity Lose Powerful Species
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Animal Collaboration History Human
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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Essence Follow Independence Instinct Reason
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Age Give Up Religion
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Experiment Fools Love
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
We are optimists, until we are not.
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One Liner Optimism
The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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Happiness Loss Music Poetry Taste
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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Acquire Conclude Female Male Mankind Music Rhythm
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Friendship Man Measure Worth
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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Absolute Addition Natural Requirement Science Selection Stage Theory
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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Encounter Energy Travel Vegetarian Work World
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Detail Discuss Existence Struggle
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Children Future Present Surround

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