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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.”

Lots of fun to listen to while weighing samples.

“ An organ serving for two purposes, may become rudimentary or utterly aborted for one, even the more important purpose; and remain perfectly efficient for the other.”