But they will not have their maximum of posterity--will not have so many as they would have had if they had been careless or thoughtless men; and so, upon an average, the issue of such intellectualised men will be less numerous than those of the unintellectual.
This quote indicates that while some intellectuals may have children, they generally have fewer than less thoughtful individuals.
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He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.
He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
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