DAEWINISM 



STATED BY DAKWIN HIMSELF. 



CEARACTERISTIC PASSAGES 

 FROM TEE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DARWIN. 



SELECTED AMD AEKANGED 

 BY 



NATHAN SHEPPAED, 



AUTUOK OF 



"8HCT UP TS PABIS" EDITOE OF "THE DICKENS BBAUEE," "OHAEACTEB EEADUrGS 



FEOM QEOBGB ELIOT/' AJ]D *^ GEOEGE ELIOT^B RBSAYS." 



" There is grand^ 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."— rA« Origin af Species, page4S9. 



NEW YORK: 

 D. APPLETON" AND COMPANY, 



1, 8, AND 5 BQlSJi STJpET. 

 1884 



