'The humblest life that ever turned a sod sends a wave—no, more than a wave, a life—through the evergrowing harmony of human society.' MR. FREDERIC HARRISON.
'Not a single nature, in its entirety, but leaves its influence for good or for evil. As a fact, the good prevail.' MR. FREDERIC HARRISON.
'To our friends and loved ones we shall give the most worthy honour and tribute if we never say nor remember that they are dead, but, contrariwise, that they have lived; that hereby the brotherly force and flow of their action and work may be carried over the gulf of death, and made immortal in the true and healthy life which they worthily had and used.' PROFESSOR CLIFFORD.
'It cannot be doubted that the "spiritual body" of this book (The Unseen Universe) will be used to support a belief that the dead are subject either to the shame and suffering of a Christian Heaven and Hell, or to the degrading service of a modern witch. From each of these unspeakable profanities let us hope and endeavour that the memories of great and worthy men may be finally relieved.' PROFESSOR CLIFFORD.
'I choose the noble part of Emerson, when, after various disenchantments, he exclaimed, "I covet truth." The gladness of true heroism visits the heart of him who is really competent to say this.' PROFESSOR TYNDALL.
'The highest, as it is the only, content is to be attained, not by grovelling in the rank and steaming valleys of sense, but by continually striving towards those high peaks, when, resting in eternal calm, reason discerns the undefined but bright ideal of the highest good—"a cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night."' PROFESSOR HUXLEY.
'If it can be shown by observation and experiment, that theft, murder, and adultery, do not tend to diminish the happiness of society, then, in the absence of any but natural knowledge, they are not social immoralities.' PROFESSOR HUXLEY.
'For my own part, I do not for one moment admit that morality is not strong enough to hold its own.' PROFESSOR HUXLEY.
'I object to the very general use of the terms religion and theology, as if they were synonymous, or indeed had anything whatever to do with one another.... Religion is an affair of the affections. It may be that the object of a man's religion—the ideal which he worships—is an ideal of sensual enjoyment.' PROFESSOR HUXLEY.
'In his hour of health ... when the pause of reflection has set in, the scientific investigator finds himself overshadowed with the same awe. It associates him with a power which gives fulness and tone to his existence, but which he can neither analyse nor comprehend.' PROFESSOR TYNDALL.