isis unveiled: chapter v (one common origin)

"It is more than fortunate that, while the works of some men of science - who have justly won their great reputations - will flatly contradict our hypotheses, the researches and labors of others not less eminent seem to fully confirm our views. In the recent work of Mr. Alfred R. Wallace, The Geographical Distribution [...]

isis unveiled: chapter v (one common origin)

"Now, if we have indisputable proof that man has existed so long as this, there must have been wonderful modifications of his physical system, corresponding with the changes of climate and atmosphere. Does not this seem to show by analogy that, tracing backward, there may have been other modifications, which fitted the most remote progenitors [...]