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Darwin has shown that we are animals; but – as humanists never tire of preaching – how we live is ‘up to us’. Unlike any other animal, we are told, we are free to live as we choose. Yet the idea of free will does not come from science. Its
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“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
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“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”
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