No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Quote by Thomas Huxley

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Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of...

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of...

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world....

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world....

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity,...

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity,...

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and...

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and...

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively...

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively...

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try...

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try...

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end...

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end...

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall...

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall...

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by...

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by...

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of...

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of...