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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Chance Grief Loss Mind Overwhelmed Recover
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Appearance Language Species
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Length Man Noble Quality
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Change Strong World
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Blush Expression Human
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Affection Heart Man Science Stone
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Agnostic Correction Description Mind State
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
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy

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