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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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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. – Havelock Ellis

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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival. – Eric Hoffer

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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. – Charles Sanders Peirce

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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. You forget, said the Devil, with a chuckle, that I have been evolving too. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law. – John Morley

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