In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.