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In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered.

Clifford Allbutt

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Clifford Allbutt
Age: 88 †
Born: 1836
Born: July 20
Died: 1925
Died: February 22
Physician
University Teacher
Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Sir Clifford Allbutt
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