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Charles Darwin further popularized the idea with his book, ''Origin of Species'', in which he wrote:

Charles Darwin further popularized the idea with his book, ''Origin of Species'', in which he wrote:

"[P]robably all of the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."  

:"[P]robably all of the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."  

"The whole history of the world, as at present known, ... will hereafter be recognised as a mere fragment of time, compared with the ages which have elapsed since the first creature, the progenitor of innumerable extinct and living descendants, was created."  

:"The whole history of the world, as at present known, ... will hereafter be recognised as a mere fragment of time, compared with the ages which have elapsed since the first creature, the progenitor of innumerable extinct and living descendants, was created."  

"When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled."  

:"When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled."

== Bases for belief ==

== Bases for belief ==