One General Law Leading To The Advancement Of All

"“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”"

"“A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.”"

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."

"“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.”"

"“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”"

"“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”"