“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.