Enchantment, Utopia, epiphany, sublime insight - the grand words of Romanticism are not Darwinian words. (In fact, they never occur anywhere in his writing.) Slight, small, varied, struggle, helpful, hopeful, natural, seclection, modification (not revolutionary change) - these are the words of Darwinism, and they have become the words of liberalism. By giving us a new set of words, Darwin changed our minds.Adam Gopnik, Angels and Ages (London: Quercus, 2009), 203.
