"Aboriginally" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with plants{382}. On the idea of double creations it would be strange if the same species of several plants should have been created in Australia and Europe; and no one instance of the same species of mammifer having been created, or aboriginally existing, in two as nearly remote and equally isolated points. It is more philosophical, in such cases, as that of some plants being found in Australia and Europe, to admit that we are ignorant of the means of transport. I will allude only to one other case, ...
— The Foundations of the Origin of Species - Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 • Charles Darwin |
