From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.


On the Origin of Species (1859) ch. 3

Charles Darwin Quotes

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher...

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher...

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher...

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher...