nThe Origin of Species
Chapter VI
"Difficulties
of the
Theory"
nOrgans of Extreme
Perfection
and Complication
n“To suppose that the eye
with all its inimitable contrivances
for adjusting the focus to different distances,
for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correcting of spherical and chromatic
aberration, could have
been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”