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theadvancedapes · 3840 days ago · link · · parent · post: What's the single greatest sentence ever written in the English language?
By far the best sentence in the history of the English language: This is the last sentence in Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species. In one single sentence he builds a scientific and philosophical framework that would become the dominant paradigm in all of science.There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.