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.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

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

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!