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A Liberal Education Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews (1870)Aphorisms and Reflections selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #114 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #122 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #228 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)

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Demoniac possession is mythical; but the faculty of being possessed, more less completely, by an idea is probably the fundamental condition of what is called genius, whether it show itself in the saint, the artist, or the man of science.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95), British biologist and educator. Reflection #134, Aphorisms and Reflections, selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907).

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