“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man…”

Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 65, Balder and the Mistletoe.

Nobel lecture (1970)

Source: Commissions and Omissions by Indian Presidents and Their Conflicts with the Prime Ministers Under the Constitution: 1977-2001, P.247

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 18, The Strange Man's Tale Goes On

"A-Wishing Well" (1962)
1960s

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 1: "The Origins of Modern Science"
Context: The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.

Acts 17:30,31
Acts of the Apostles