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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin

A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWIN

Appearance Language Species
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
CHARLES DARWIN

Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWIN

Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attribution Creature Live Love Man
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Possible Recognize Stage Thinking
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
CHARLES DARWIN

Important Shield Sword Victory
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blush Expression Human
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
CHARLES DARWIN

Death Original Pursue
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWIN

Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
CHARLES DARWIN

Face Glad Hold Nature Bright One Liner
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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