Quotes by Grant Allen

"Never let schooling interfere with education."
— Grant Allen
"I beg your pardon," Philip interposed stiffly, now put upon his mettle. "We have no taboos at all in England. ... England, you must remember, is a civilized country, and taboos are institutions that belong the lowest and most degraded savages."
— Grant Allen
"They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them."
— Grant Allen
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Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the ...