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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. ✨ A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy. Book by John Herschel, 1830.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. ✨ A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy. Book by John Herschel, 1830.

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