"Depuration" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... if the first man had happened to have his larynx closed, or had not found suitable food, or had been defective in the parts of generation, or had failed to find a mate, then what would have become of the human race? It would have been still enfolded in the general depuration of the universe; and that arrogant being who calls himself Man, dissolved and scattered among the molecules of matter, would perhaps have remained for all time hidden in ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley |
