Charles Darwin -- A Creationist ?

Thanks to the internet and technology, now you don't need to travel all the way to British Library to read one of the world greatest piece of theses from Charles Darwin --- "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection". You can easily find this writing on the web here.

There are 2 paragraphs that he wrote in the last chapter(Chapter 14) of his thesis. I'm quoting directly from the original text, I hope:

488 CONCLUSION. CHAP. XIV.
Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

490 CONCLUSION. CHAP. XIV.
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling 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.

If Darwin were to write "have been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one", we can definitely conclude that Darwin remained a Creationist, despite all his hardwork and development of his theory. Isn't that idea similiar to Genesis 2:7, when Adam was breathed into his nostrils the breath of life? Hey, had Darwin forgotten to put his reference, or he deliberately pharsed that sentence?

Are we convinced that in the last passage Darwin clearly stated that God created one or a few basic forms of life, and from those we observe what have been evolved today?

I have to agree with the scholar's opinion, "Darwin found this view more beautiful than that which he and most other people previously held (that God created everything and that it still is as he created it, without change). The idea that life has no limits and that life will continue to evolve into wonderful creations is indeed an amazing and awe-inspiring thought."

Have we misunderstood Darwin's thoughts and killed God without further reasoning?