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THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES 



Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entail- 

 ing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less- 

 improved forms. Thus, from tlie war of nature, from 

 famine and death, tlie most exalted object which we 

 are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the 

 higber animals, directly follows, ^here is grand eur in 

 this view of life, with its se veral powers, having be en 

 aidgjj ^lly breath ed by the Creator into a few forms or 

 igtoone; and that, while this planet has gon e cy c ling 

 on according lo the fixed law of gravrty7 from so sim- 

 ple a beginning en dless forms most beautiful and mos t 

 wonderful have been and are being evolved. 



