I know that as an extract of The Origin of Species I should treat this with greater respect - but my reaction was "enough already Darwin! I get it" - it loads repetitive example one upon the other seemingly without end - and at times he offers a summary that feels as long as the chapter which it claims to precis. Unlike many older works in the Great Ideas collection it felt stylistically to be written for a different time, and of course in making the case for a radical theory the more evidence he could offer the better, where as now it is a common place and we don't need convincing.
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