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He is known for several aphorisms. Some of the best are "The last living thing on earth will most certainly be a microbe." and "No one can be a one-hundred-per-cent doctor until he has himself had some serious illness or surgical operation." Morris told the Cornell Club that World War One was like a Darwinian struggle, but that countries would better recognise the importance of mutual dependence, and he believed that races and hybrids of them depended on "protoplasm" for their success. He also argued that many great writers wrote how they did due to the influence of bacterial toxins on their brains.
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