When we no longer
look at an organic being as
a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly
beyond his comprehension; when we regard
every production of nature as one which has
had a long history; when we contemplate every
complex structure and instinct as the summing
up of many contrivances, each useful to the
possessor, in the same way as any great
mechanical invention is the summing up of the
labour, the experience, the reason, and even
the blunders of numerous workmen; when we
thus view each organic being, how far more
interesting—I speak from experience—does the
study of natural history become!
CHARLES
DARWIN,
The Origin of Species1
Order. Hierarchy. Discipline.
BENITO MUSSOLINI,
proposed national slogan2