On the Origin of Species, closing sentence
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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 most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
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The last sentence of Darwin's book, written for readers who had just met the argument for the first time.
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