Whenever, owing to the total darkness, they became useless, they might also become injurious, on account of their delicacy of organisation and liability to accidents and disease; in which case natural selection would begin to act to reduce, and finally abort them; and this explains why, in some cases, the rudimentary eye remains, although completely covered by a protective outer skin.
— from Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications by Alfred Russel Wallace

It is important, for instance, to see in what relation crime in different communities stands to age, sex, climate, temperature, race, education, religion, occupation, home and social surroundings.
— from Crime and Its Causes by William Douglas Morrison

In that State children thus regain equal rights with dogs, cats, and canaries.
— from Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians by Halliday Sutherland