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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction.
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I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.
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It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
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Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
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We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.
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I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.
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