Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of His Published LettersD. Appleton, 1892 - 365 من الصفحات |
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... Maer * I was told that I could kill the worms with salt and water , and from that day I never spitted a living worm , though at the expense probably of some loss of success . Once as a very little boy whilst at the day school , or ...
... Maer * I was told that I could kill the worms with salt and water , and from that day I never spitted a living worm , though at the expense probably of some loss of success . Once as a very little boy whilst at the day school , or ...
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... Maer . My zeal was so great that I used to place my shooting - boots open by my bed - side when I went to bed , so as not to lose half a minute in putting them on in the morning ; and on one occasion I reached a distant part of the Maer ...
... Maer . My zeal was so great that I used to place my shooting - boots open by my bed - side when I went to bed , so as not to lose half a minute in putting them on in the morning ; and on one occasion I reached a distant part of the Maer ...
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... Maer in 1827 was memorable from meeting there Sir J. Mackintosh , who was the best con- verser I ever listened to . I heard afterwards with a glow of pride that he had said , " There is something in that young man that interests me ...
... Maer in 1827 was memorable from meeting there Sir J. Mackintosh , who was the best con- verser I ever listened to . I heard afterwards with a glow of pride that he had said , " There is something in that young man that interests me ...
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... Maer , and sometimes with young Eyton of Eyton . Upon the whole the three years which I spent at Cambridge were the most joyful✓ in my happy life ; for I was then in excellent health , and almost always in high spirits . As I had at ...
... Maer , and sometimes with young Eyton of Eyton . Upon the whole the three years which I spent at Cambridge were the most joyful✓ in my happy life ; for I was then in excellent health , and almost always in high spirits . As I had at ...
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... Maer for shooting ; for at that time I should have thought myself mad to give up the first days of partridge - shooting for geology or any other science . Voyage of the Beagle ' : from December 27 , 1831 , to October 2 , 1836 . On ...
... Maer for shooting ; for at that time I should have thought myself mad to give up the first days of partridge - shooting for geology or any other science . Voyage of the Beagle ' : from December 27 , 1831 , to October 2 , 1836 . On ...
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الصفحة 49 - 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 tastes depend, I cannot conceive.
الصفحة 38 - I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work...
الصفحة 49 - 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 171 - At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a " tendency to progression," " adaptations from the slow willing of animals,
الصفحة 274 - ... that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction — the following words : " I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.
الصفحة 8 - 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. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to versemaking, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together,...
الصفحة 232 - I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.
الصفحة 20 - But no pursuit at Cambridge was followed with nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure as collecting beetles. It was the mere passion for collecting, for I did not dissect them, and rarely compared their external characters with published descriptions, but got them named anyhow. I will give a proof of my zeal : one day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare...
الصفحة 212 - The only objections that have occurred to me arc, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum so unreservedly. . . . And 2nd, it is not clear to me why, if continual physical conditions are of so little moment as you suppose, variation should occur at all. However, I must read the book two or three times more before I presume to begin picking holes. I trust you will not allow...
الصفحة 167 - It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared for it." I do not think that this is strictly true, for I occasionally sounded not a few naturalists, and never happened to come across a single one who seemed to doubt about the permanence of species.