I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.
Charles DarwinOur ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.
Charles DarwinI see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
Charles DarwinIt may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.
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 Darwin