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Excerpt from On the Theory of the Origin of Species: By Natural Selection in the Struggle for Life
But what, it may well be asked, are these progenitors or prototypes? For these words are but generic terms, which con vey no notion of size, form, or quality. We must, in fact, consider them as atoms or monads of unappreciable minute ness - not visible even by the solar microscope; in truth, nothing better than such stuff as dreams are made of.'
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