it seriously and in all good faith tries to understand them; having dressed up its own Mumbo Jumbo (which it once jeered at religion for doing) it piously shuts its eyes and endeavours to believe in it.
— from Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays by Edward Carpenter

" It might be interesting to speculate how his sense of deficiency in physical strength, in eloquence of speech, and volubility of language might have contributed to the fostering of that disposition for intense application to scientific studies which became to him like a second nature.
— from Scientific Studies; or, Practical, in Contrast with Chimerical Pursuits by Henry Dircks

Considering the protection {126} afforded this insect by the case, which it inhabits during its preparatory stages, its enormous mortality from the attacks of a parasitic dipteron ( Eurigaster marginatus ) is very remarkable.
— from New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera) by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson