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lest a new generation should accept the
[There was actual danger lest a new generation should] "accept the main doctrines of the "Origin of Species" with as little reflection, and it may be with as little justification, as so many of our contemporaries, years ago, rejected them."
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

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