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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real dangers and abject superstitions during ancient savage times?

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Charles Darwin

British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

February 12th, 1809 - April 19th, 1882

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