Phenomena appear, in a word, to be explicable on the ground of development. We have already seen that various leading animal forms represent stages i… - Robert Chambers

The rise of each generation gives new ties towards the future, which insensibly dissolves those which bind us to the past; and the natural old age of the human race seems to have adjusted itself to that period beyond which the human being would feel isolated and desolate in the midst of the new objects of attachment which the progress of time brings into existence.

I may here refer to a curious mathematical calculation by Dr. Thomas Young, to the effect, that if three words coincide in two different languages, it is ten to one they must be derived in both cases from some parent language, or introduced in some other manner.

Indifference to life and indifference to the purity and amenity that sweeten existence must necessarily go together.