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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.

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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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