The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

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

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.