The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical Chapter, المجلد 1Murray, 1887 |
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... South America . As far as I can judge of myself , I worked to the utmost during the voyage from the mere pleasure of investigation , and from my strong desire to add a few facts to the great mass of facts in Natural Science . But I was ...
... South America . As far as I can judge of myself , I worked to the utmost during the voyage from the mere pleasure of investigation , and from my strong desire to add a few facts to the great mass of facts in Natural Science . But I was ...
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... South America , I attributed the parallel lines to the action of the sea ; but I had to give up this view when Agassiz propounded his glacier- lake theory . Because no other explanation was possible under our then state of knowledge , I ...
... South America , I attributed the parallel lines to the action of the sea ; but I had to give up this view when Agassiz propounded his glacier- lake theory . Because no other explanation was possible under our then state of knowledge , I ...
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... South America , before I had seen a true coral reef . I had therefore only to verify and extend my views by a care- ful examination of living reefs . But it should be observed that I had during the two previous years been incessantly at ...
... South America , before I had seen a true coral reef . I had therefore only to verify and extend my views by a care- ful examination of living reefs . But it should be observed that I had during the two previous years been incessantly at ...
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... South America ' were pub- lished . I record in a little diary , which I have always kept , that my three geological books ( ' Coral Reefs ' included ) con- sumed four and a half years ' steady work ; " and now it is ten years since my ...
... South America ' were pub- lished . I record in a little diary , which I have always kept , that my three geological books ( ' Coral Reefs ' included ) con- sumed four and a half years ' steady work ; " and now it is ten years since my ...
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... South America he killed twenty- three snipe in twenty - four shots . In telling the story he was careful to add that he thought they were not quite so wild as English snipe . Luncheon at Down came after his midday walk ; and here I may ...
... South America he killed twenty- three snipe in twenty - four shots . In telling the story he was careful to add that he thought they were not quite so wild as English snipe . Luncheon at Down came after his midday walk ; and here I may ...
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الصفحة 82 - 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 370 - 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 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.
الصفحة 81 - 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 80 - Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable, and music very great delight.
الصفحة 372 - After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable; from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object.
الصفحة 86 - ... my success as a man of science, whatever this may have amounted to, has been determined, as far as I can judge, by complex and diversified mental qualities and conditions. Of these the most important have been — the love of science, — unbounded patience in long reflecting over any subject, — industry in observing and collecting facts, — and a fair share of invention as well as of common sense. With such moderate abilities as I possess, it is truly surprising that I should have influenced...
الصفحة 555 - The teleological and the mechanical views of nature are not, necessarily, mutually exclusive. On the contrary, the more purely a mechanist the speculator is, the more firmly does he assume a primordial molecular arrangement, of which all the phenomena of the universe...
الصفحة 29 - 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 69 - 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 365 - This wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living, will, I do not doubt, hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on our earth and their disappearance from it than any other class of facts.