"Thus, 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. 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."
This is the last paragraph in The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin.
I think what he is trying to convey -- or at least the way I choose to read this -- is that there is pain and death and hurt all around us, and that is natural. But from that pain and death and hurt life springs abundantly and most magnificently, and it will always be so. And that, my friends, is a most comforting and wonderful thing.
Ain't life grand? Let the world spin madly on.
This is the last paragraph in The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin.
I think what he is trying to convey -- or at least the way I choose to read this -- is that there is pain and death and hurt all around us, and that is natural. But from that pain and death and hurt life springs abundantly and most magnificently, and it will always be so. And that, my friends, is a most comforting and wonderful thing.
Ain't life grand? Let the world spin madly on.
Chris
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