Alder [In the Woods]’s Reviews > The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82 > Status Update

I love how half the people publicly ridiculing them for Darwin's theory only argument against it is either “I don’t like the fact i'm descended from an ape” or “bUt tHe BiBle 🥺”

“ Long occupation with the work has led the present writer to believe that the Origin of Species is one of the hardest of books to master”

“ My ague has left me in such a state of torpidity that I wish I had gone through the process of natural selection.”

“ If we choose to let conjecture run wild, then animals, our fellow brethren in pain, disease, death, suffering and famine—our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements—they may partake [of] our origin in one common ancestor—we may be all melted together."