Astronomers might formerly have said that God ordered each planet 

 to move in its particular destiny. In same manner God orders each animal 

 created with certain form in certain country. But how much more simple 

 and sublime power, let attraction act according to certain law, such 

 are inevitable consequences, let animal(s) be created, then by the fixed laws 

 of generation, such will be their successors. 



From DARWIN'S Note Book, 1837, p. 101. 



