Quote#Wisdom
If Man be separated by no greater structural barrier from the brutes…
Quote byThomas Henry Huxley · 1825–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 125.
English (original)
If Man be separated by no greater structural barrier from the brutes than they are from one another—then it seems to follow that if any process of physical causation can be discovered by which the genera and families of ordinary animals have been produced, that process of causation is amply sufficient to account for the origin of Man.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
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