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All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

— Francis Galton

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Anthropology teaches us to sympathise with other races, and to regard them as kinsmen rather than aliens.

Opening Remarks by the President (1886)

What nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

One of the effects of civilisation is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

I do not plead guilty to a shallow view of human nature, when I propose to apply, as it were, a foot-rule to its heights and depths.

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