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As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Charles Darwin
Perfection, Progress, Natural
Charles Darwin (1875). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.428

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.

Charles Darwin
Progress, Degrees, Savages
Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.199, Diversion Books

Progress has been much more general than retrogression

Charles Darwin
Progress, Has Beens
Charles Darwin (1872). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.177

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

Charles Darwin
Science, Tree, Progress
Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.54, Hackett Publishing

History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.

Charles Darwin
Mind, Progress, Skins

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