Quote#World
Men are beginning, once more, to awake to the fact that matters of…
Quote byThomas Henry Huxley · 1825–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Universities, Actual and Ideal" (1874) in Collected essays (1894) p. 192..
English (original)
Men are beginning, once more, to awake to the fact that matters of belief and of speculation are of absolutely infinite practical importance. ...Change is in the air. ... It insists on reopening all questions and asking all institutions, however venerable, by what right they exist, and whether they are, or are not, in harmony with the real or supposed wants of mankind.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
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