There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst 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.
— Charles Darwin Modern

Theory of evolution

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The concluding sentence of 'On the Origin of Species'.

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1859

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1228/1228-h/1228-h.htm

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