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“Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.”

Children Science Mother House Nature Natural Produce Diversity Infinite Variety Partisans

Book:Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881

Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881

“O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.”

Children Art Done Mother Given Nature Becoming Benefits Slavery Rewards Motherhood Punishment Receiving Ruthless Stepmothers

Book:Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd

Source: Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd

“Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”

“Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.”

Knows Children Care Science Nature Natural Bears Divides Fur Monarchs

Book:The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

“Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.”

May Children Doe Science Purpose Nature Animal Psychology Habit One Day Seeds Psychological

Author:Aristotle

“Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.”

“You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.”

Source: The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby