...' Selborne ' that first set him to watch the habits of birds, and Humboldt and Herschel who first " stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most...contribution to the noble structure of natural science." — The importance of the study of dialects and mixed languages is well appreciated nowadays, and essays...

...Sir John Herschel's " Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy." These two books, he says, " stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of the Natural Science." By answering well in Paley and Euclid, the only Cambridge sub- . jects he worked...

...Personal Narrative, and of Sir John Herschel's Introduction to Natural Philosophy, stirred up in him ' a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science.' The vow to eschew geology was quickly broken when he came under the spell of Sedgwick's influence,...

...science often begins in hero-worship. " This work," says Darwin of Humboldt's " Personal Narrative," "stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most...contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science." * We easily forget this varied and impassioned idealism of early life ; but " the thoughts of youth...

...with cave and profound interest Humboklt's ' Personal Narrative.' This work, and Sir J. Hersche1's ' Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy,'...of natural science. No one or a dozen other books innuON THE GENETIC VIEW OF NATURE. and his studies directed by reading and re - reading Humboldt's...

...read and was greatly impressed by Herschel's Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy, which ' cations. (Conclusion of Chap. IV. of Origin ff Spirits, 6th ed., pp. 104, 105.) Natural Selection. It was then, too, that he read Humbolclt's Personal Narrative, which certainly helped to lead him to...

...read with care and profound interest Humboldts „Personal Narrative". This work and Sir J. Herschels „Introduction to the study of Natural Philosophy"...of Natural Science. No one or a dozen other books influcncetl me nearly so much as these two, und zwar dermaßen daß DARWIN versuchte Schiflfsgelegenheit...

...read with care and profound interest Humboldts „Personal Narrative". This work and Sir J. Herschels „Introduction to the study of Natural Philosophy"...stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most hunible contribution to the nolile structure of Natural Science. No one or a dozen other books influcnccd...

...Cambridge, he says (p. 47): "I read with care and profound interest Humboldt's Personal Narrative. This work, and Sir J. Herschel's Introduction to the...of Natural Philosophy, stirred up in me a burning seal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science.10 No one of...

...twenty-two, in Cambridge, he says: "I read with care and profound interest Humboldt's 'Personal Narrative.' This work, and Sir J. Herschel's 'Introduction to...stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humHie contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No one of a dozen other books influenced...