Combate, un poema oculto entre los árboles en el párrafo centésimo cuarto de El Origen de las Especies
Este párrafo, de haber estado en verso, podría haber ganado, por su alto contenido lírico, un concurso de poemas. Veamos: Su título, sin duda: Struggle: What a struggle must have gone on during long centuries between the several kinds of trees, each annually scattering its seeds by the thousand; what war between insect and insect between insects, snails, and other animals with birds and beasts of prey all striving to increase, all feeding on each other, or on…