Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of s…

Thomas Huxley
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Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, p.101
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