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- Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount of evidence to…
- It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting…
- About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that…
- I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of…
- It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything…
- That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful…
- How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is…
- But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all…
- Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable…
- Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t…
- I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense…
- Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest,…
- Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly…
- I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not…
- One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
- The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or…
- It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad,…
- From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in…
- As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so…
- I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas…
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