[t]he Young And The Old Of Widely

Delight Itself, However, Is A Weak Term To Express The Feelings Of A Naturalist.

After My Return To England It Appeared To Me That By Following The Example Of Lyell In Geology, And By Collecting All Facts Which Bore In Any Way On The Variation Of Animals And Plants Under Domestication And Nature, Some Light Might Perhaps Be Thrown On The Whole Subject.

We Are Optimists, Until We Are Not.

It Has Been A Bitter Mortification For Me To Digest The Conclusion That The "race Is For The Strong" And That I Shall Probably Do Little More But Be Content To Admire The Strides Others Made In Science.

The World Will Not Be Inherited By The Strongest, It Will Be Inherited By Those Most Able To Change.