As a proof of the admirable power of the mind, I may mention that I have been for some years training my mind to reject the evidence of my senses when they do not square with my preconceived notions.
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"Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble and I believe truer to consider him created from animals."
"What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horridly cruel works of nature!"
"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world."
"I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade my…"
"I have been much struck by the fact that the more I have read about the subject, the less I have understood it."
This is a misquote/misunderstanding of a passage in his autobiography where he talks about carefully observing things that go against his theories, not rejecting sensory evidence. The actual quote is: 'I had, also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favorable ones.'
Date: 1876
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