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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: further modifications of the same kind would often still further increase
the advantage. No country can be named in which all the native inhabitants
are now so perfectly adapted to each other and to the physical conditions
under which they live, that none of them could anyhow be improved; for in
all countries, the natives have been so far conquered by naturalised
productions, that they have allowed foreigners to take firm possession of
the land. And as foreigners have thus everywhere beaten some of the
natives, we may safely conclude that the natives might have been modified
with advantage, so as to have better resisted such intruders.
As man can produce and certainly has produced a great result by his
methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not nature effect?
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