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• The following is a memo from the business manager of National Daily News.
  "To expand the home delivery service of our national newspaper, we should concentrate on the state of Urba rather than on the state of Sylva....
• All advances by degrees in Nature, and nothing by leaps, and this law as applied to each, is part of my doctrine of Continuity.
  Although there may exist in some other world species intermediate between Man and the Apes, Nature has thought it best to remove them from us, in order to establish our superiority beyond question....
• I suppose that everyone is familiar in outline with the theory of the origin of species which Darwin promulgated.
  Through the last fifty years this theme of the natural selection of favored races has been developed and expounded in writings innumerable....
• And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense
  That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope....
• It is the nature of our species to be free. -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8.
• Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome.
  You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die....
• 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. --Friedrich Nietzsche...
• The history of the rise of Christianity has everything to do with politics, culture, and human frailties and nothing to do with supernatural manipulation of events.
  Had divine intervention been the guiding force, surely two millennia after the birth of Jesus he would not have a world where there are more Muslims than Catholics, more Hindus than Protestants, and more nontheists than Catholics and Protestants combined....
• The agreement of so many kinds of animals in a certain common structure
  which seems to be fundamental not only in their skeletons, but also in the arrangement of the other parts - so that a wonderfully simple typical form, by the shortening and lengthening of some parts, and by the suppression and development of others, might be able to produce an immense variety of species - allows a ray of hope, however faint, to enter our minds, that here perhaps some result may be obtained, by the application of the principle of the mechanism of nature (without which there can be no natural science in general)....