Origin of Species Variorum

→ special use than they now are to these animals with their widely diversified habits, and might consequently have been modified through natural selection. 1869

special use to that progenitor, or its progenitors, than they now are to these animals having such widely diversified habits. 1859 1860 1861 1866

numerous bones in the fin of some ancient fish-like progenitor of the whole class. 1872

↑ 1 blocks not present in 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869; present in 1872

It is scarcely possible to decide how much allowance ought to be made for such causes of change, as the definite action of external conditions, so-called spontaneous variations, and the complex laws of growth; but with these important exceptions, we may conclude that the structure of every living creature either now is, or was formerly, of some direct or indirect use to its possessor.

→ Making due allowance for the definite action of changed conditions, correlation, reversion, &c., 1869

Therefore 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ every detail of structure in every living creature is either now or was formerly of use,—directly or indirectly through the complex 1869

these several bones might have been acquired through natural selection, subjected formerly, as now, to the several 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ growth. 1869

inheritance, reversion, correlation of growth, &c. Hence every detail of structure in every living creature (making some little allowance for the direct action of physical conditions) may be viewed, either as having been of special use to some ancestral form, or as being now of special use to the descendants of this form— either directly, or indirectly through the complex laws of growth. 1859 1860

inheritance, reversion, correlation of growth, &C. Hence every detail of structure in every living creature (making some little allowance for the direct action of physical conditions) may be viewed, either as having been of special use to some ancestral form, or as being now of special use to the descendants of this form— either directly, or indirectly through the complex laws of growth. 1861

inheritance, reversion, correlation of growth, &C. Hence every detail of structure in every living creature (making some little allowance for the direct action of physical conditions) may be viewed, either as having been of special use to some ancestral form, or as being now of special use to the descendants of this form—either directly, or indirectly through the complex laws of growth. 1866

→ may safely be accepted as true, and as 1866 1869

is 1872

→ of any object 1869

of any particular object 1866

OMIT 1872

→ is not an innate and unalterable element in the mind. 1866 1869

of what is beautiful, is not innate or unalterable. 1872

→ in 1866 1869

for instance, in the 1872

→ picturesque beauty in 1869

beauty in natural 1866

of more →special use than they now are to these animals with their widely diversified habits, and might consequently have been modified through natural selection. ↑ →Making due allowance for the definite action of changed conditions, correlation, reversion, &c., we may

infer

conclude

that →every detail of structure in every living creature is either now or was formerly of use,—directly or indirectly through the complex laws of →growth.

With respect to the

view

belief

that organic beings have been created beautiful for the delight of

man,—

man,—a

a belief

view

which it has

lately

....

been pronounced →may safely be accepted as true, and as subversive of my whole

theory,—

theory,—I

I may

may

first remark that the

sense

idea

~~the~~

the

beauty →of any object obviously depends on the

nature

mind

the mind,

man,

irrespective of any real quality in the admired object; and that the idea →is not an innate and unalterable element in the mind. We see

this,

this

→in men of different races admiring an entirely different standard of beauty in their

women.

~~neither~~

~~the~~

~~Negro~~

~~nor~~

~~the~~

~~Chinese~~

~~admires~~

~~the~~

~~Caucasian~~

~~beau-ideal.~~

The idea also of →picturesque beauty in scenery has arisen only within modern times. On the view of beautiful objects having been created for

man's

mans

gratification, it ought to be shown that there was less beauty on the face of the earth before man appeared than since he came on the stage. Were the beautiful volute and cone shells of the Eocene epoch, and the gracefully sculptured ammonites of the Secondary period, created that man might ages afterwards admire them in his cabinet? Few objects are more beautiful than the minute siliceous cases of the diatomaceæ: were these created that they might be examined and admired under the higher powers of the microscope? The beauty in this latter case, and in many others, is apparently wholly due to symmetry of growth. Flowers