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"Ontology recapitulates philology." – Attributed to James Grier Miller by W.V. Quine in "Word and Object", p. viii (1960)
"Ages before Lamarck and Darwin it was held in India that man has passed through 84 lakhs (8,400,000) of birth as plants, animals, as an "inferior species of man" and then as the ancestor of the developed type existing to-day. The theory was not, like modern doctrine of evolution, based wholly on observation and a scientific enquiry into fact but was a rather (as some other matters) an act of brilliant intuition in which observation may also have had some part...........To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light…
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