Editing On the Origin of Species (section)

===Concluding remarks===
The final chapter, "Recapitulation and Conclusion", reviews points from earlier chapters, and Darwin concludes by hoping that his theory might produce revolutionary changes in many fields of natural history.<ref>{{harvnb|Darwin|1859|pp=[http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=502&itemID=F373&viewtype=text 484–488]}}, Quote: "When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly foresee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history. ..."</ref> He suggests that psychology will be put on a new foundation and implies the relevance of his theory to the [[Human evolution|first appearance of humanity]] with the sentence that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history."<ref name=wyhe/><ref>{{harvnb|Darwin|1859|p=[http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F373&pageseq=506 488]}}<br/>{{Harvnb|Darwin|1871|p=[http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=14&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=text 1]}}, Quote: "… this implies that man must be included with other organic beings in any general conclusion respecting his manner of appearance on this earth."</ref> Darwin ends with a passage that became well known and much quoted:

<blockquote>It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us ... Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. 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.<ref>{{harvnb|Darwin|1859|pp=[http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F373&pageseq=507 489–490]}}</ref></blockquote>

Darwin added the phrase "by the Creator" from the 1860 second edition onwards, so that the ultimate sentence begins "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one".<ref name="2nd edn p 190" />