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» listen (mp3, 3:06) to David Kohn provide a broader context to this passage and why Darwin wrote it Image transcription ↑
[…]The analogy between the works of art or intellect such as hinge, & hinge of shell, works of laws of organization is remarkable— what is intellect, but organization, with mysterious consciousness superadded This is similar idea, to cells of bee, corresponding to ---------- I look at every adaptation, as the surviving one of ten, thousand trials.— each step being perfect or nearly so (except no in isd) although having heredetary superfluities Man could exist without Mammæ. to the then existing conditions.— An adaptation made by intellect this process is shortened, but yet analogous, no savage ever made a perfect hinge.— reason, & not death rejects the imperfect attempts.
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