Quote#Nature
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the…
Quote byRichard Owen · 1804–1892
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: as stated in "The Edinburgh Review" on page 521 by Sydney Smith, Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, William Empson, Macvey Napier, George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, and Harold Cox, publication in 1860..
English (original)
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.
— Richard Owen
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