...widely accepted "fixed law of gravity" lent beauty and wonder to the continuing drama of evolution. o Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object of which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production of the higher animals, directly follows....

...words are often quoted, but the full sentence is quoted less often. It reads as follows: There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or into one, and that, whilst this planet has gone on cycling according...

...43 Gilbert (2006, p. 238). 44 Darwin (1859). 45 In his closing words to The Origins of the Species: Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst the planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless...

...perfection."74 The final paragraph of The Origin of Species says: "Thus, from the war of nature . . . the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving,...production of the higher animals, directly follows." Ospovat, agreeing with John Greene's characterization of Darwin as an "evolutionary deist," shows that...

...possibility of life elsewhere in our solar system, and possibilities for life among the stars. NHAT IS LIFE? There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according...

...most emphasized. For example, in the final sentence of The Origin of Species Darwin waxed lyrical. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according...