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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/darwin.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/darwin.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6425bf156cc --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/darwin.tex @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many +plants of many kinds, 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. |