From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are… — Charles Darwin
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
On the Origin of Species · 1859
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Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 14.
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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 14.
