Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.