In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
From Alfred Russel Wallace
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
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