“This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.”

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88 Precepts

Revolution by Number

pg. 41.
Races and Immigrants in America, 1907

Source: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 15
Context: The sick chamber is the place where the most angelic virtues of the human race have ever been called into action. The meek patience of the sufferer—the endurance and the active benevolence of those who would not barter that sick room, with its gloom and silence, for all the glitter and the grandeur that human ambition displays beyond its walls—are among the finest objects that the philosophic eye can look on. So in every well-regulated household, each deathbed, if it carry with it the memory of broken ties and deserted seats at the social board, calls up also the recollection of duties fulfilled, of charities administered, of overflowing affection, ashamed to speak its strength, showing itself in strong deeds of unwearied assiduity.

Rome, or Reason? A Reply to Cardinal Manning. Part I. The North American Review (1888)

Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 278
Context: Of late years... it has been successfully shewn that the human race might have had one origin, for anything that can be inferred from external peculiarities.

Herbert N. Casson in: The Office Economist (1935) Vol. 17-21. p. 145
1920s-1940s

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