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

Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be; and the success of sanitary legislation will be indicated by the nearness or the distance of its actual practice from this perfect idea.

Just suppose for a moment that every fact reported to us by others were viewed in the light of the skeptical system, as to the fallaciousness of the senses and the tendency to self-deception. Should we not from that moment be at a stand-still in all the principal movements of our lives?

I believe my doctrines to be in the main true; I believe all truth to be valuable, and its dissemination a blessing.