Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared for it." I do not think that this is strictly true, for I occasionally sounded not a few naturalists, and never happened to come across a single one who seemed to doubt about the permanence of species.

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.