If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuali…

Thomas Huxley
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism, p.76
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