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Materials for the study of variation (1894)
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Variation, whatever may be its cause, and however it may be limited, is the essential phenomenon of Evolution. Variation, in fact, is Evolution. The readiest way, then, of solving the problem of Evolution is to study the facts of Variation.
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Though the problem [of evolution] is all unsolved and the old questions stand unanswered, there are those who have taken on themselves the responsibility of giving to the ignorant, as a gospel, in the name of Science, the rough guesses of yesterday that tomorrow should forget.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
August 8, 1861
Died:
February 8, 1926
(aged 64)
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