Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

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.

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.