Huxley

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    No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

    A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)