Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

The normal food of man is vegetable.