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Title: The Foundations of the Origin of Species
Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844

Author: Charles Darwin

Editor: Francis Darwin

Release Date: September 22, 2007 [EBook #22728]

Language: English

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THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

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THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

TWO ESSAYS WRITTEN IN 1842 AND 1844

by

CHARLES DARWIN

Edited by his son

FRANCIS DARWIN

Honorary Fellow of Christ's College

Cambridge:

at the University Press

1909

Astronomers might formerly have said that God ordered each planet
to move in its particular destiny. In same manner God orders each
animal created with certain form in certain country. But how much
more simple and sublime power,--let attraction act according to
certain law, such are inevitable consequences,--let animal(s) be
created, then by the fixed laws of generation, such will be their
successors.

From DARWIN'S _Note Book_, 1837, p. 101.

TO THE MASTER AND FELLOWS
OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, THIS
BOOK IS DEDICATED BY THE
EDITOR IN TOKEN OF RESPECT
AND GRATITUDE

CONTENTS

ESSAY OF 1842
PAGES

INTRODUCTION xi

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