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The Quotable Darwin
The above lines, by the 15th century Sufi and Persian poet Nuruddin Abdurrehman Jami, say ‘What can I speak in praise of that exalted one? Though not a prophet, he had a book’. Jami, of course, was referring to Jalaaluddin Rumi, the legendary 13th century Persian poet and mystic, and his epic mystic poem the Masnavi-e-Ma’anavi, but what he said so beautifully could equally apply to Charles Darwin, whose book On the Origin of Species quite literally transformed our perception of the living world and ourselves as few books have done.
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