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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
Civilisation has ... (more Alfred Russel Wallace quotes)
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