Many Years Ago It Was Taught That

Yes, It Is True That There Are Times When You Do Wonder If Things Are Worth It But Usually Those Moments Pass As Soon As They Have Come.

I Am Sufficiently Convinced Already That The Members Of A Profession Know Their Own Calling Better Than Anyone Else Can Know It.

We Have Really, That I Know Of, No Philosophical Basis For High And Low. Moreover, The Vegetable Kingdom Does Not Culminate, As The Animal Kingdom Does. It Is Not A Kingdom, But A Common-wealth; A Democracy, And Therefore Puzzling And Unaccountable From The Former Point Of View.

This View, As A Rounded Whole And In All Its Essential Elements, Has Very Recently Disappeared From Science. It Died A Royal Death With Agassiz.

Natural Selection Is Not The Wind Which Propels The Vessel, But The Rudder Which, By Friction, Now On This Side And Now On That, Shapes The Course.