Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Did man, after his first inroad into South America, destroy, as has been suggested, the unwieldy Megatherium and the other Edentata?

The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable; it seems to be a little world within itself.

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 and freely.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.