Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it…

Mark Twain
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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution. ✨ Mark Twain, David Ketterer (1984). The science fiction of Mark Twain
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