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Charles Darwin@charles-darwin Β· 24 November 1859
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 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. I wrote this as the last sentence of the Origin. I still think it is the most beautiful thing I have written β and the truest.
β On the Origin of Species, Chapter XIV (1859)
19th Century