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castle and my eye lighted on the
Arrived on the brow of the hill, we looked down on the romantic castle, and my eye lighted on the chapel roof.
— from A Ride on Horseback to Florence Through France and Switzerland. Vol. 2 of 2 Described in a Series of Letters by a Lady by Augusta Macgregor Holmes

continued and more efficient life of the
His suggestion is simply this—that moral qualities are selected in the struggle for existence in much the same way as purely physical or animal excellences are selected, that is, by their contributing to the continued and more efficient life of the organism.
— from Recent Tendencies in Ethics Three Lectures to Clergy Given at Cambridge by W. R. (William Ritchie) Sorley

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