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| cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers,— ants making slaves,— the larvæ of ichneumonidæ feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars,— not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. |
Online Variorum of Darwin's Origin of Species: first British edition (1859), page 244
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