Lajien Synty: Luonnollisen Valinnan Kautta
1913
Lajien Synty: Luonnollisen Valinnan Kautta
1913
Translated by Koskimies A. R.
Lajien Synty: Luonnollisen Valinnan Kautta, first published in Finnish between 1913-1917, is a translation of Charles Darwin's seminal work on evolution and natural selection, originally published in 1859. This influential text argues that species evolve over time and share common ancestors, challenging the traditional view of species as immutable. Darwin's observations from his voyage on the Beagle and the contributions of earlier naturalists form the foundation of his argument, making this work essential for understanding biological diversity and the mechanisms of adaptation in nature.
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“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.””
— Charles Darwin
“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.””
— Charles Darwin
“One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.””
— Charles Darwin
“Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.””
— Charles Darwin
“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.””
— Charles Darwin
“I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.””
— Charles Darwin
“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.””
— Charles Darwin
“...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.””
— Charles Darwin
“Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!””
— Charles Darwin
