Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.

Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.