“The history of human progress is a story of emancipation, and its course has by no means been run. The future of the race is in all likelihood to be a scientific future, since science gives the truth needed in actual life and furnishes the means for advance, every achievement enlarging the field of subsequent possibilities. Nothing can stop this growth except suppressions of freedom.”

— Ralph Vary Chamberlin

"The Kingdom of Man" https://archive.org/details/kingdomofman289cham (1938)

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American biologist (1879-1967) 1879–1967

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