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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Charles Darwin

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advise Clear Ignorance Perceive
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attribution Creature Live Love Man
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
CHARLES DARWIN

Desert Life Love Trial
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
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
CHARLES DARWIN

Concern Discover Fear Hope Permit Reason Truth
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Constitution Moral
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
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Die Law Live Organic Science Strong Weak
Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
CHARLES DARWIN

Death Original Pursue
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWIN

Body Die Inch Insect Talk
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cause Greatness Insitution Misery Nature Poor Poverty Sin
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blush Expression Human
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
CHARLES DARWIN

Feet Man
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWIN

Goodness Man Nature Selection

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