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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."
"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."
"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."
"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
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