White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.
Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the new features as adaptive to environments. And that's a perfectly good principle. The problem is that there are many evolutionary biologists who view everything that happens in evolution as directly evolved for adaptive benefit. And that just doesn't work. Whenever you build a structure for adaptive reasons, the structure is going to exhibit properties that have nothing to do with adaptation. They're just side consequences.
Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.
Artists. . . disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.