• With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.

    Charles Darwin: With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.
    Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.199, Diversion Books