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.
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species
On this date in 1836, HMS Beagle arrived at Hobart, Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania), from where Darwin made several inland trips.
On this date in 1838, Darwin was elected vice president of the Entomological Society.
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