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“Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 610beed48fa70ea940ba7ddb660363e45841f6a80e82140516522f11c05d6db1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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