When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distinct futurity.
Izaki guztiak, kreazio berezi moduan barik, kanbriar sistemako lehen geruza metatu baino askoz lehenago bizi izan ziren izaki gutxi batzuen ondorengo artez moduan ikusten ditudanean, nobletu egiten direla deritzot. Iraganetik ikusirik, segurtasunez inferi dezakegu bizi den espezie batek berak ere ez duela bere antza etorkizun urrunera transmitituko aldaketarik gabe.