DARWINISM
STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF.
CHARACTERISTIC PASSAGES
FROM THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DARWIN.
SELECTED AND ARRANGED
BY
NATHAN SHEPPARD,
AUTHOR OF
“SHUT UP IN PARIS,” EDITOR OF “THE DICKENS READER,” “CHARACTER READINGS
FROM GEORGE ELIOT,” AND “GEORGE ELIOT’S ESSAYS.”
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, while 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.”—The Origin of Species, page 429.
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1884.
Copyright, 1884,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.