Charles Darwin a-t-il vraiment dit « There is grandeur in this view of life » ?

Charles Darwin a-t-il vraiment dit « There is grandeur in this view of life » ?

Trouvé mot pour mot. Oui. Le texte figure dans des œuvres attribuées à Charles Darwin. Source et emplacement ci-dessous.

… r 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 by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling 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.
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition — Charles Darwin, CHAPTER XV. RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION. · ¶1025 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #2009 · source

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