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

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

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

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

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

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

There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.