Charles Darwin - Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Part 10

Popularly known as The Origin of Species, the full title of Charles Darwin's book is:  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.  The first edition was published in London, by John Murray, in 1859.

Darwin uses the following poignant words to close his book:

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.

See, also:

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Part 1

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Part 2

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Part 3

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Part 4

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Part 5

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Part 6

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Part 7

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Part 8

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Part 9

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Part 11

Credits

Clip from "Evolution: Darwin's Dangerous Idea," first aired by NOVA.  Online, courtesy PBS.