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

That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.

How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

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

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.