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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.

Man Selects Only For His Own Good: Nature Only For That Of The Being Which She Tends.

Endless Forms Most Beautiful And Most Wonderful Have Been, And Are Being Evolved

We Are Optimists, Until We Are Not.

I See No Good Reasons Why The Views Given In This Volume Should Shock The Religious Views Of Anyone.