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

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

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

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

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

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