“He remarks that "considering their weakness and their size, the work they are represented to have accomplished is stupendous." Here we have an instance of that inability to sum up the effects of a continually recurrent cause, which has often retarded the progress of science, as formerly in the case of geology, and more recently in that of the principle of evolution.”

— Charles Darwin , book The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms

Introduction, p. 6. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=21&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image
The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881)

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