Not One Change Of Species Into Another

It Is Interesting To Contemplate An Entangled Bank Clothed With Many Plants Of Many Kinds With Birds Singing On The Bushes, With Various Insects Flitting About And With Worms Crawling Through The Damp Earth And To Reflect That These Elaborately Constructed Forms So Different From Each Other And Dependent On Each Other And So Complex A Manner Have All Been Produced By Laws Acting Around Us.

We Are Always Slow In Admitting Any Great Change Of Which We Do Not See The Intermediate Steps

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

Every New Body Of Discovery Is Mathematical In Form, Because There Is No Other Guidance We Can Have.

We Feel Surprise When Travellers Tell Us Of The Vast Dimensions Of The Pyramids And Other Great Ruins, But How Utterly Insignificant Are The Greatest Of These, When Compared To These Mountains Of Stone Accumulated By The Agency Of Various Minute And Tender Animals!