Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.
Source:(John Murray, ed. 1871), Volume II, Part II. Sexual Selection, Chapter XXI. General Summary and Conclusion, Page 405
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