When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

• 当我看到所有的生物不是特殊的创造品而是几种远在志留纪层还未形成之前就已存在的生物的直系后代，他们就似乎变得更加高贵了。