The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life 1
The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life 1
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
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We see this, for instance, in the men of different races admiring an entirely different standard of beauty in their womeu. If beautiful objects ha^ been created solely for man's gratification, it ought to be shown that before man appeared, there was less beauty on the face of the earth than since he came on the stage. Were the beautiful volute and cone shells of the Eocene epoch, and the gracefully sculptured ammonites of the Secondary period, created that man might ages afterwards admire them ...in his cabinet? Few objects are more beautiful than the minute siliceous cases of the diatomaceae: were these created tliat they might be examined and admired under the higher powers of the microscope ? The beauty in this latter case, and in many others, is apparently wholly due to symmetry of growth. Flowers rank amongst the most beautiful productions of nature; but they 252 UTILITARIAN DOCTRINE, HOW FAR TRUE: have been rendered conspicuous in contrast with the green leaves, and in consequence at the same time beautiful, so that they may be easily observed by insects.
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