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a brief sojourn。 for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people first of all for those upon whose smiles and wellbeing our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... E mc2 = “ I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.” —Charles Darwin from The Origin of Species Darwin was the first evolutionary biologists, the originator of the concept of natural selection. His principal works, The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871) marked a new epoch. His works were violently attacked and energetically defended. CHARLES DARWIN: SCIENTIST WITH IMMENSE PERCEPTION! “ Evolution or God, natural selection or divine intervention? Almost 200 years after his birth, the debate over Charles Darwin’s origin of our species still rages,” said Time magazine in a recent article. The Church of England issued an apology for having misunderstood Darwin’s work. “Two hundred years from your birth, the Church of England owes you an apology for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand you still,” it said. age 7 age 30 age 49 age 55 age 65 age 71 What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can prehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person w