"Depuration" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not found suitable food, or had been defective in the parts of generation, or had failed to find a mate, then what would have become of the human race? It would have been still enfolded in the general depuration of the universe; and that arrogant being who calls himself Man, dissolved and scattered among the molecules of matter, would perhaps have remained for all time hidden in the number of ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley |
