"The entire modern deification of survival per se, survival returning to itself, survival naked and abstract, with the denial of any substantive excellence in what survives, except the capacity for more survival still, is surely the strangest intellectual stopping-place ever proposed by one man to another."
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William James, review of Clifford's Lectures and Essays, Collected Essays and Reviews (1920), p. 143 (1879)
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