Elements of Geology by Charles Lyell: “Their conformation of skull has marked differences from that of any known races in the upper world, though I cannot help thinking it a development, in the course of countless ages of the Brachycephalic type of the Age of Stone in Lyell's 'Elements of Geology,' C. X., p. 113, as compared with the Dolichocephalic type of the beginning of…”
On the Stratification of Language by Max Müller: “One of the most illustrious of recent philologists, Max Muller, in arguing for the analogy between the strata of language and the strata of the earth, lays down this absolute dogma: "No language can, by any possibility, be inflectional without having passed through the agglutinative and isolating stratum. No language can be agglutinative…”
Essay on Classification by Louis Agassiz: “…by an eloquent passage from the work of that eminent zoologist, Louis Agassiz, which I have only just met with, … "The relations … as the highest conception of paradise?"--'Essay on Classification,' sect. xvii. p. 97-99.”
A Thousand and One Nights: “…presented pictures of a life unfamiliar to her experience and interesting to her imagination; pictures, indeed, of a life more resembling that which we lead every day above ground, coloured by our sorrows, sins, passions, and much to her what the tales of the Genii or the Arabian Nights are to us.”