It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore…

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I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the...

I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long;...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long;...

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it...

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it...

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject...

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject...

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than,...

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than,...

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to...

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to...

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus...

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus...

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more...

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more...

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific...

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific...

-The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize...

-The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize...

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that...

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that...

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and...

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and...

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to...

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to...

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of...

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of...

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.