"As I was led to keep in my study during many months worms in pots filled with earth, I became interested in them, and wished to learn how far they acted consciously, and how much mental power they displayed."
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Charles Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881) Introduction, pp. 2β3
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