There is grandeur in this view of life...whilst this planet has gone…

There is grandeur in this view of life...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species · 1859

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Human evolution Creation of man Evolution Human origins

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1859

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Charles Darwin

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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.

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