The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.