“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle , book The Stark Munro Letters

The Stark Munro Letters (1894)

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Scottish physician and author 1859–1930

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