[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Random Monkey Effort #114,142

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It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants 
of many kinds, with banana trees hanging above, with birds singing on the 
bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through 
the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so 
different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a 
manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken 
in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; inheritance which is 
almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct 
action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio 
of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence 
to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction 
of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, 
the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the 
production of the higher animals, directly follows. 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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