Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published LettersJohn Murray, 1902 - 348 من الصفحات |
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... afterwards published in the Transactions . I heard Audubon deliver there some interesting discourses on the habits of N. American birds , sneering somewhat unjustly at Waterton . By the way , a negro lived in Edinburgh , who had ...
... afterwards published in the Transactions . I heard Audubon deliver there some interesting discourses on the habits of N. American birds , sneering somewhat unjustly at Waterton . By the way , a negro lived in Edinburgh , who had ...
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... afterwards published a large and excellent book on the birds of Scotland . I had much interesting natural - history talk with him , and he was very kind to me . He gave me some rare shells , for I at that time collected marine mollusca ...
... afterwards published a large and excellent book on the birds of Scotland . I had much interesting natural - history talk with him , and he was very kind to me . He gave me some rare shells , for I at that time collected marine mollusca ...
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... afterwards with a glow of pride that he had said , " There is something in that young man that interests me . " This must have been chiefly due to his perceiving that I listened with much interest to everything which he said , for I was ...
... afterwards with a glow of pride that he had said , " There is something in that young man that interests me . " This must have been chiefly due to his perceiving that I listened with much interest to everything which he said , for I was ...
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... afterwards I received the pro- ceedings of one of the meetings , in which it seemed that the shape of my head had been the subject of a public discus- sion , and one of the speakers declared that I had the bump of reverence developed ...
... afterwards I received the pro- ceedings of one of the meetings , in which it seemed that the shape of my head had been the subject of a public discus- sion , and one of the speakers declared that I had the bump of reverence developed ...
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... afterwards . I know that I ought to feel ashamed of days and ever gs thus spent , but as some of my friends were very pleasant , and we were all in the highest spirits , I cannot help looking back to these times with much pleasure . But ...
... afterwards . I know that I ought to feel ashamed of days and ever gs thus spent , but as some of my friends were very pleasant , and we were all in the highest spirits , I cannot help looking back to these times with much pleasure . But ...
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الصفحة 40 - I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from longcontinued observation of the habits of animals and plants...
الصفحة 51 - 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 173 - 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.
الصفحة 185 - I never saw a more striking coincidence ; if Wallace had my MS. sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract ! Even his terms now stand as heads of my chapters.
الصفحة 27 - The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career...
الصفحة 278 - ... 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 236 - I am bewildered. I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us.
الصفحة 52 - I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. Indeed, I have had no choice but to act in this manner, for with the exception of the Coral Reefs, I cannot remember a single first-formed hypothesis which had not after a time to be given up or greatly modified.
الصفحة 40 - After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject. My first note-book was opened in July 1837. 1 worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts on a whole-sale scale...
الصفحة 239 - I asserted — and I repeat — that a man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who, not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance...