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

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

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

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

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

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.