Through the means just specified, aided perhaps by others as yet undiscovered, man has been raised to his present state. But since he attained to the rank of manhood, he has diverged into distinct races, or as they may be more fitly called, sub-species. Some of these, such as the Negro and European, are so distinct that, if specimens had been brought to a naturalist without any further information, they would undoubtedly have been considered by him as good and true species.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for ev…

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should bear in mind that the activity of the mind…

Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes, and dispositions between two or more domestic races, or between nea…

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has …

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those re…

As man advances in civilisation, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend hi…