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

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

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

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception

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

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the most healthy escaped; from enemies, the strongest, swiftest, or the most cunning; from famine, the best hunters or those with the best digestion; and so on. Then it suddenly flashed upon me that this self-acting process would necessarily improve the race, because in every generation the inferior would inevitably be killed off and the superior would remain-that is, the fittest would survive.