Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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