“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
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No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
