The extension of the province of what we call matter or 

 causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions 

 of human thought, of what we call spirit and spontaneity. 



Traced back to its earliest state, the matter arises, as the man 

 does, in a particle of nucleated protoplasm." HuXLEY. 



(This is the man who had the assurance, not to use a much 

 stronger word, to say in the Times that he made it his great boast 

 that he always wrote in a plain and perspicuous manner ! ) 



"CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE." 



[FROM DARWIN'S "ORIGIN OF SPECIES."] 



" Almost inevitably ; I think ; I think ; it seems pretty clear ; 

 " I am strongly inclined to suspect ; my impression is ; may ; 

 "I think; seems probable; almost compels us; perhaps; I 

 " think ; may be ; makes me believe ; I believe ; we may safely 

 "conclude; not improbable ; I think; I think; I do not 

 " believe ; I believe ; I cannot doubt ; I do not think ; seems to 

 11 me ; highly probable ; it seems to me unlikely ; I should 

 " think ; I am doubtfully inclined to believe ; we must admit ; 

 " probably ; I cannot doubt; who can believe ? there can be no 

 " doubt; I can hardly believe; I am fully convinced ; seems to 

 " me ; may be ; seems to me ; may perhaps ; may have ; has 

 probably been ; I think ; I cannot doubt ; I cannot doubt; I 

 "think; as I believe ; perhaps partly ; I think; I think ; prob- 

 ' ' ably ; I believe ; I do not believe ; I believe ; I fc am convinced ; 

 " I am inclined to suspect ; I believe ; we may believe ; prob- 

 " ably ; probably ; I suspect ; I think ; can it be thought 

 "impossible; can one doubt; we may conclude; we have 

 " reason to believe ; as I believe ; nor do I believe ; we may 

 "safely conclude; it may metaphorically be said; we must 

 1 ' believe ; I can see no reason to doubt ; probably ; I can see no 

 -" great difii< -nit y in this ; probably; probably; might be; might 

 ^be; probably; if so; might; perhaps; may be; may be; 

 I ran see no reason to doubt; might; I strongly suspect; as 

 " I believe; as I believe ; let us suppose ; I can see no reason 

 " to doubt ; might be ; would probably ; might be ; would 



