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Submitted by jrlewis on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 10:13pm.
In response to the inconsistancy you spotted, I think Darwin is saying that natural selection achieves increasingly closer approximations to perfection, but never actually reaches it.  Kind of like asymptotes and limits in calculus.  To extend the comparison a little further, asymptotes continue into infinity.  So does the process of natural selection?  There is always change occuring?

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