Who said “The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of…”?

“Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.”

“All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.”

“...Darwinian Man, though well-behav’d, At best is only a monkey shav’d!”

“God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.”

“Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.”

“Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.”

“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.”

“In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.”

“Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.”

“Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”

“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.”