There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWINI have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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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.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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