Quote#Nature
The doctrine of evolution is nothing else than the historical method…
Quote bySir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet · 1845–1937
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 'English Opportunities in Historical and Comparative Jurisprudence', an inaugural lecture delivered at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (20 October 1883), quoted in Frederick Pollock, Oxford Lectures and Other Discourses (1890), p. 41.
English (original)
The doctrine of evolution is nothing else than the historical method applied to the facts of nature; the historical method is nothing else than the doctrine of evolution applied to human societies and institutions.
— Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
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