There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter