Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
CHARLES DARWIN
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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