You have expressed my inward conviction, though far more vividly and clearly than I could have done, that the Universe is not the result of chance. … Lastly, I 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 civilized 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.


volume I, chapter VIII: "Religion", page 316; letter to William Graham (3 July 1881) - The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

Charles Darwin Quotes

You have expressed my inward conviction, though far more vividly and clearly than I could have done, that the Universe is not the result of chance....

You have expressed my inward conviction, though far more vividly and clearly than I could have done, that the Universe is not the result of chance....

You have expressed my inward conviction, though far more vividly and clearly than I could have done, that the Universe is not the result of chance....

You have expressed my inward conviction, though far more vividly and clearly than I could have done, that the Universe is not the result of chance....