Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is...

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala’s mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

He acts like an animal, has an animal’s habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There’s even something -sub-human -something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something – ape-like...

[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce’s question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother’s or his father’s side]A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape...

I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is not possible for man to understand God – God understands God....

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who,...