Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

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.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .