...he Who Remains Passive When Over-whelmed With

On The Ordinary View Of Each Species Having Been Independently Created, We Gain No Scientific Explanation.

When The Sexes Differ In Beauty, In The Power Of Singing, Or In Producing What I Have Called Instrumental Music, It Is Almost Invariably The Male Which Excels The Female.

But Just In Proportion As This Process Of Extermination Has Acted On An Enormous Scale, So Must The Number Of Intermediate Varieties, Which Have Formerly Existed, Be Truly Enormous. Why Then Is Not Every Geological Formation And Every Stratum Full Of Such Intermediate Links? Geology Assuredly Does Not Reveal Any Such Finely Graduated Organic Chain; And This, Perhaps, Is The Most Obvious And Serious Objection Which Can Be Urged Against The Theory. The Explanation Lies, As I Believe, In The Extreme Imperfection Of The Geological Record.

It Is A Cursed Evil To Any Man To Become As Absorbed In Any Subject As I Am In Mine.

Man Selects Only For His Own Good: Nature Only For That Of The Being Which She Tends.