When The Views Entertained In This Volume

...all Nature Is Perverse & Will Not Do As I Wish It.

As Man Advances In Civilization, And Small Tribes Are United Into Larger Communities, The Simplest Reason Would Tell Each Individual That He Ought To Extend His Social Instincts And Sympathies To All Members Of The Same Nation, Though Personally Unknown To Him. This Point Being Once Reached, There Is Only An Artificial Barrier To Prevent His Sympathies Extending To The Men Of All Nations And Races.

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

He Who Understands Baboon Would Do More Towards Metaphysics Than Locke.

Our Faculties Are More Fitted To Recognize The Wonderful Structure Of A Beetle Than A Universe.