We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.