It appears to us to be one of the many peculiar merits of that [Mr. Darwin's] hypothesis that it involves no belief in a necessary and continual prog… - Thomas Henry Huxley

Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.

L’échiquier représente le monde, les pièces sont les phénomènes de l’univers, les règles du jeu sont ce qu’on appelle les lois de la nature, et le joueur de l’autre côté nous est caché.

The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that the determination of man's place in Nature and his relation to the Cosmos.