It’s all about Number 10. 1-9 are just the end justifying the means.
The final paragraph of the The Origin of Species" includes:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." [Emphasis added by me.]