“The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.”

—  William Winwood Reade

Source: The Martyrdom of Man (1872), Chapter III, "Liberty", p. 315.

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