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The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

— George Henry Lewes The Foundations of a Creed (1874)

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Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

The Spanish Drama (1846)

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

The Foundations of a Creed (1874)

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature.

He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

The Spanish Drama (1846)

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