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Quote by Havelock Ellis
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. – Havelock Ellis

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Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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