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At 18:50 02/06/2005, Amanda Chesworth wrote:
>An interesting note - in the first edition, there is no mention of "a
>creator," the sentence simply appears "...having been originally breathed
>into a few forms or into one..."
>
>Many changes were made in subsequent editions to appease the critics. Sad.

I guess volumes could be written about what lay behind this. Nevertheless, 
Darwin's revision of the breathing-in-of-life passage only seems intended 
to emphasise what was clearly a deliberate allusion to Genesis 2:7 in the 
first edition.


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