Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the…

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal. ✨ Historia Animalium VIII.I (transl. D. W. Thompson)
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