"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
"I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable."
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Source: Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.6, Harvard University Press
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