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Orange Jacobs: “Consider the fact that nowhere in nature, from the highest to the lowest, was an instinct, an impulse, a desire…”

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Consider the fact that nowhere in nature, from the highest to the lowest, was an instinct, an impulse, a desire implanted, but that ultimately were found the conditions and opportunities for its fullest realization.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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He points out that every instinct in nature has conditions for its fulfillment, suggesting a purposeful design.

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