The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

"But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this—we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws."

"The only distinct meaning of the word 'natural' is stated, fixed or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e., to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once."

struggle for existence,

Articulate what life is universally.

divergence of character.

geological epochs

deliberate study and dispassionate judgment

erroneous.

immutable;

lineal desc...