Natural selection, then, explains the fixation of species, the non-persistence of the on-adapted, of what are called the misfits—and the the survival of the well- adapted or fit. [...] The Greek Ambassador observed with admiration the absence of slavery in India, the chastity of the women and the courage of the men. [...] Let us take the religion of ancient Greece as we find it portrayed in Homer's Iliad—probably the oldest Greek record extant, and contrast it with the ancient Indian religion as we know of it from the Vedas and the Upanishads. "44 KAN1ALA LECTURES At the head of the divine hierarchy in the Grecian religion, stands . 7tus, Olympian _Jove, the lightning-wielder, the cloud-compeller, the Universal Lord [...] After the assassination of Coligny, a bell from the tower of the royal palace at midnight gave, to the assembled companies of burghers, the signal for the general massacre of the Huguenots. [...] In the gallery of Madrid, there is a painting by Francisco Rizzi representing the execution, or rather the procession to the stake, of a number of heretics during the fetes that followed the marriage of Charles II and before the King, his Bride and the Court and Clergy of Madrid.