DAKWINISM 



STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF. 



CHARACTERISTIC PASSAGES 

 FROM TEE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DARW.l'. 



SELECTED AND ARRANGED 



NATHAN SHEPPARD, 



author or 



'SHUT CP DJ PARIS," EDITOR OF " TIIE DICKENS READER," " CHARACTER HEADINGS 



FROM GEORGE ELIOT," AND " GEORGE ELKil'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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