The spirit or life spark which animates... by Arthur Young | We Heart Quotes

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The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

- Arthur Young

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Science

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

- Arthur Young

Purpose Nothing Man

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

- Arthur Young

Plants God Man

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

- Arthur Young

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