All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the defini

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

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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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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. – W. S. Gilbert

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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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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man. – H. L. Mencken

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