“The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago…had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”

—  H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 7

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British physician, writer, and social reformer 1859–1939

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