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"I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it."
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"I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago."
"Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win."
"But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal."
"The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before."
"I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families."
"I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room."
"This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm."
"Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?"
"I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on."
"We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape."
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