Epigraph
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.