Status Updates From The Origin of Species

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“ There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gon on according to the fixed law of gra- vity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

“ Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.”

“ Nature may be said to have taken pains to reveal, by rudimentary organs and by homologous structures, her scheme of modification, which it seems
that we wilfully will not understand.”