The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, المجلد 1John Murray, 1887 - 418 من الصفحات |
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... character . But his life was so essentially one of work , that a history of the man could not be written without following closely the career of the author . Thus it comes about that the chief part of the book falls into chapters whose ...
... character . But his life was so essentially one of work , that a history of the man could not be written without following closely the career of the author . Thus it comes about that the chief part of the book falls into chapters whose ...
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... character of the letter . Other small words , such as of , to , & c . , have been inserted , usually within brackets . My father underlined many words in his letters ; these have not always been given in italics , a rendering which ...
... character of the letter . Other small words , such as of , to , & c . , have been inserted , usually within brackets . My father underlined many words in his letters ; these have not always been given in italics , a rendering which ...
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... character . Yet we get no evidence in Erasmus of the intense modesty and sim- plicity that marked Charles Darwin's whole nature . But by the quick bursts of anger provoked in Erasmus , at the sight of any inhumanity or injustice , we ...
... character . Yet we get no evidence in Erasmus of the intense modesty and sim- plicity that marked Charles Darwin's whole nature . But by the quick bursts of anger provoked in Erasmus , at the sight of any inhumanity or injustice , we ...
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... character of his second son Erasmus ( born 1759 ) , I have little to say , for though he wrote poetry , he seems to have had none of the other tastes of his father . He had , however , his own peculiar tastes , viz . genealogy , the ...
... character of his second son Erasmus ( born 1759 ) , I have little to say , for though he wrote poetry , he seems to have had none of the other tastes of his father . He had , however , his own peculiar tastes , viz . genealogy , the ...
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... character felt sure that he was to be trusted . So he advanced this sum , which was a very large one for him while young , and was after a time repaid . " I suppose that it was his sympathy which gave him un- bounded power of winning ...
... character felt sure that he was to be trusted . So he advanced this sum , which was a very large one for him while young , and was after a time repaid . " I suppose that it was his sympathy which gave him un- bounded power of winning ...
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الصفحة 102 - I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
الصفحة 61 - Beagle" has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me thirty miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would 41 have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.
الصفحة 32 - Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.
الصفحة 101 - My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher states depend, I cannot conceive...
الصفحة 82 - ... surrounding conditions, nor the will of the organisms (especially in the case of plants) could account for the innumerable cases in which organisms of every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life — for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal byhooks or plumes.
الصفحة 316 - But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind...
الصفحة 84 - This problem is the tendency in organic beings descended from the same stock to diverge in character as they become modified. That they have diverged greatly is obvious from the manner in which species of all kinds can be classed under genera, genera under families, families under sub-orders and so forth; and I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me; and this was long after I had come to Down.
الصفحة 313 - I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man ; and I deserve to be called a Theist. This conclusion was strong in my mind about the time, as far as I can remember, when I wrote the Origin of Species, and it is since that time that it has very gradually, with many fluctuations, become weaker. But then arises the doubt — can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe, been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest...
الصفحة 38 - Zoonomia of my grandfather, in which similar views are maintained, but without producing any effect on me. Nevertheless it is probable that the hearing rather early in life such views maintained and praised may have favoured my upholding them under a different form in my Origin of Species.
الصفحة 55 - Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy,' stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science.