As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
In the late summer of 1859, Charles Darwin finally completed the last paragraph of his greatest work on The Origin Of Species. But he wasn't drawing his inspiration from the exotic islands...