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Light may be shed on man and his origins.

Charles Darwin

What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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Book Cruel Nature Work Writing
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Collapse Exception Man Nature Wonderful
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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Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Evolution God
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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Attack Fame Love Truth
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Alone Existence Life Relationship
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.
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Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Beget Confidence Frequent Ignorance Knowledge
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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Collection Fact General Grind Machine Mind
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Length Man Noble Quality
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Absurd Confession Degree Natural Possible Selection
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Desert Life Love Trial
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection

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