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Excerpt from Physiological Observations on Mental Susceptibility; The Influence of Education on the Varieties of the Human Race and the Brute Creation: Interspersed With Illustrative Anecdotes and Phrenological Exemplifications; To Which Is Added, and Essay on Hereditary Instinct, Sympathy, and Fascination
When Galileo declared the sun to be a fixed body, he was summoned before the Inquisition, and with the threat of fire and faggot ordered to abjure as a 'f damnable heresy that which the immortal Newton.
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