Capitalism, Though It May Not Always Give

You Can Drop A Mouse Down A Thousand-yard Mine Shaft And, On Arriving At The Bottom, It Gets A Slight Shock And Walks Away. A Rat Would Probably Be Killed, Though It Can Fall Safely From The Eleventh Story Of A Building, A Man Is Broken, A Horse Splashes.

There Is No Great Invention, From Fire To Flying, Which Has Not Been Hailed As An Insult To Some God.

Science Is Vastly More Stimulating To The Imagination Than The Classics.

The Advance Of Scientific Knowledge Does Not Seem To Make Either Our Universe Or Our Inner Life In It Any Less Mysterious.

Quantitative Work Shows Clearly That Natural Selection Is A Reality, And That, Among Other Things, It Selects Mendelian Genes, Which Are Known To Be Distributed At Random Through Wild Populations, And To Follow The Laws Of Chance In Their Distribution To Offspring. In Other Words, They Are An Agency Producing Variation Of The Kind Which Darwin Postulated As The Raw Material On Which Selection Acts.