Only The Fittest Will Survive.

It Is Scarcely Possible To Doubt That The Love Of Man Has Become Instinctive In The Dog.

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 Beneficent Creator Does Not Seem To Arise In The Mind Of Man, Until He Has Been Elevated By Long-continued Culture.

Freedom Of Thought Is Best Promoted By The Gradual Illumination Of Men’s Minds Which Follows From The Advance Of Science.

It At Once Struck Me That Under These Circumstances Favourable Variations Would Tend To Be Preserved, And Unfavourable Ones To Be Destroyed.

It May Be Doubted Whether Any Character Can Be Named Which Is Distinctive Of A Race And Is Constant.