![I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, 'as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.'](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-see-no-good-reason-why-the-views-given-this-volume-the-origin-of-species-shou.jpg)
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