The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles DarwinI could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.
Charles DarwinTag: darwinism racism natural-selection eugenics nazism white-supremacy social-darwinism racial-superiority
But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?
Charles DarwinTag: mind evolution darwinism contradiction macro-evolution macroevolution human-mind darwin-s-doubts self-refuting
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.
Charles DarwinTag: biology evolution darwinism fossils macro-evolution macroevolution fossil-record paleontology conclusion-before-evidence intermediate-forms missing-links
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.
Charles DarwinTag: science biology evolution darwinism macro-evolution macroevolution
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?
[To William Graham 3 July 1881]
Tag: evolution darwinism macro-evolution macroevolution darwin-s-doubts
...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
Charles DarwinBut Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.
Charles DarwinEnglishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.
Charles DarwinTag: crying tears englishmen
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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