Hi All,

As I was scanning the Internet recently I came across this quote by Darwin and I planned on posting on my site. On a day like today, it seems so fitting, so I thought I'd share it with you.

It is a bitter and humiliating thing to see works, which have cost men so much time and labour, overthrown in one minute; yet compassion for the inhabitants is almost instantly forgotten, from the interest excited in finding that state of things produced in a moment of time, which one is accustomed to attribute to a succession of ages.”

-- Charles Darwin, March 1835 (reporting the ruin of Concepción in Chile, by an earthquake)

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