In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.
Charles DarwinTag: discrimination race
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me
Charles DarwinBut we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given the evidence to the best of my ability; and we must acknowledge , as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his godlike intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system - with all these exalted powers - Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
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Charles DarwinCauses of Variability — Effects of Habit and the use and disuse of Parts — Correlated Variation — Inheritance — Character of Domestic Varieties — Difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species — Origin of Domestic Varieties from one or more Species — Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin — Principles of Selection, anciently followed, their Effects — Methodical and Unconscious Selection — Unknown Origin of our Domestic Productions — Circumstances favourable to Man's power of Selection.
Charles DarwinHumboldt's glorious descriptions are
Charles DarwinDarwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are
Charles DarwinTag: sense
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
Charles DarwinTag: science biology evolution illusion natural-selection harsh struggle-for-life
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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