The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.