The necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.

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Original Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. Man's Place in Nature and Other Anthropological Essays. London: Macmillan, 1894, preface.

Current Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. Man's Place in Nature, edited by Stephen Jay Gould. Random House, 2001, preface.