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The reason for the sameness is that human nature does not change , and the Poor Laws are always dealing with human nature . It is the fashion nowadays to decry the Poor Laws as hard and brutal . But this is a mistake .
The reason for the sameness is that human nature does not change , and the Poor Laws are always dealing with human nature . It is the fashion nowadays to decry the Poor Laws as hard and brutal . But this is a mistake .
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Heredity is a descent into the abyss of human consciousness ; environment is wide as history ; disease comes home to every heart . The modern study of heredity begins with the observations of Mendel upon lathyrus odoratus ; but it is ...
Heredity is a descent into the abyss of human consciousness ; environment is wide as history ; disease comes home to every heart . The modern study of heredity begins with the observations of Mendel upon lathyrus odoratus ; but it is ...
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... which to him seem characteristic of German thought ; the first embodies that ' divine discontent ' with the limitations necessarily imposed on human knowledge and activity ; the second , the tendency towards analysis and criticism .
... which to him seem characteristic of German thought ; the first embodies that ' divine discontent ' with the limitations necessarily imposed on human knowledge and activity ; the second , the tendency towards analysis and criticism .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 254 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1930 |
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