A Language, Like A Species, When Extinct,

The Main Conclusion Here Arrived At ... Is That Man Is Descended From Some Less Highly Organized Form.

If I Had My Life To Live Over Again, I Would Have Made A Rule To Read Some Poetry And Listen To Some Music At Least Once Every Week.

Mathematics Seems To Endow One With Something Like A New Sense.

It Is Often Said That All The Conditions For The First Production Of A Living Organism Are Now Present, Which Could Ever Have Been Present. But If (and Oh! What A Big If!) We Could Conceive In Some Warm Little Pond, With All Sorts Of Ammonia And Phosphoric Salts, Light, Heat, Electricity, &c., Present, That A Proteine Compound Was Chemically Formed Ready To Undergo Stillmore Complex Changes, At The Present Day Such Matter Would Be Instantly Devoured Or Absorbed, Which Would Not Have Been The Case Before Living Creatures Were Formed.

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