The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

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.