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Charles Darwin on Both Sides of Each Question

Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (Appleton: 1882), p. 2.

No one can feel more sensible than I do of the necessity of hereafter publishing in detail all the facts, with references, on which my conclusions have been grounded; and I hope in a future work to do this. For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question and this is here impossible.