The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

The normal food of man is vegetable.