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Thomas Huxley Quotes: Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.
         

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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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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