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Growth is the only evidence of life.

— John Henry Newman

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The observation that "Growth is the only evidence of life" comes from John Henry Newman, a towering figure of 19th-century thought. As an Anglican priest who later converted to Catholicism, Newman penned his influential work, "An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine," in 1845. This essay sought to explain how religious doctrines could evolve and become

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