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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body.

Source: On Descartes' `Discourse Touching the method of Using One's Reason Rightly and of Seeking Scientific Truth' (1870; published in Collected Essays, vol. 1, 1893).
-- Thomas Henry Huxley, (May 4 1825-1895), English biologist; He was an advocate of Darwin's natural selection theory and named the phylum Coelenterata (Jellyfish).

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