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By Charles Darwin

…we must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, first edition, vol. 2, 1871 · Chapter XXI, General Summary and Concluding Remarks, p. 405
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The last sentence of the main text of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, first edition, volume 2 (London: John Murray, 1871). Darwin has just said that man may take some pride in having risen to the top of the organic scale.

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