The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken" ( Printing and the Mind of Man). In the Origin, "Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The Origin of Species marked "a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general" ( Dictionary of Scientific Biography). "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 wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." -Charles DarwinįIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH of Darwin's masterpiece, "the most important single work in science" (Dibner). These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species-that mystery of mysteries." 'Beagle,' as a naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
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