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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.

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
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Detail Discuss Existence Struggle
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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Cold Devote Evolution Fantasy Myself
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Change Prove Record Species
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Build Result Smart
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Animal Consideration Equality
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
We are optimists, until we are not.
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One Liner Optimism
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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Encounter Energy Travel Vegetarian Work World
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
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.
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Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking

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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