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Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a god. no such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, no such thing as a god, but only a series of forces.
-John Ruskin
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Modern Science Gives Lectures On Botany, To

John Ruskin
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a god. no such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, no such thing as a god, but only a series of forces.
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