William McNeill was the speaker of 13th Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1831 to 1834. He was the speaker during all the four sessions of the assembly.
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William McNeill was the speaker of 13th Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1831 to 1834. He was the speaker during all the four sessions of the assembly.
“The principle obstacle to human dominion over the rain forests is still the rich variety of parasites lying in wait for intruders.”
“When variations could be so extravagantly successful, displacement of one humanoid population by another even more effective group of hunters must have occurred frequently. Survival was more likely for the more formidable in battle as well as for the more efficient in the hunt.”
“Looked at from the point of view of other organisms, humankind resembles an acute epidemic disease, whose occasional lapses into less virulent forms of behavior have never yet sufficed to permit any really stable, chronic relationship to establish itself.”
“Decisive breakthroughs in military medical administration came just after the turn of the twentieth century. Until then, in even the best-managed armies, disease was always a far more lethal factor than enemy action, even during active campaigns.”
“Ingenuity, knowledge, and organization alter but cannot cancel humanity's vulnerability to invasion by parasitic forms of life. Infectious disease which antedated the emergence of humankind will last as long as humanity itself, and will surely remain, as it has been hitherto, one of the fundamental parameters and determinants of human history.”
“The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.”
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William McNeill was the speaker of 13th Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1831 to 1834. He was the speaker during all the four sessions of the assembly.
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