Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism

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

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time

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

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