Civilization seeks to suppress all those primitive instincts in man which formed the main part of the machinery of his evolution in earlier times.
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I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
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