death, the
most
exalted
object
which we
are
capable of
conceiv-
ing,
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
