Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 6.
“I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.”
Source: Life's Solution (2003), p. 314.
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