The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus….

If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make life richer and happier. In my youth I ….

I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did n….

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits..

May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real dange….

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pr….

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. T….

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter..

We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive pe….

Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by….

It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and ….

I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of a universal and ben….

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can..

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher a….

From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under g….

...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct ….

As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensit….

Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this ear….

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily an….

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized c….

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that….