[Pg 473] B. As the discussion stands at the present day, we may assume that the scientific world is pretty equally divided on the question of unity of the human family, and the point is to be settled by facts, and not by names.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

She watched every step won in philosophy, every discovery in science, every token of social change and progress in every shape.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The weather improved very much after this, the sun appearing and shining with increasing power each day, while the snow disappeared entirely from the valleys and lower portions of the hills.
— from The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson