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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... pleasant . He had strongly - marked features , with a brown complexion , and his clothes , when I saw him , were all brown . He seemed to believe in everything which was to others utterly incredible . He said one day to me , " Why don't ...
... pleasant . He had strongly - marked features , with a brown complexion , and his clothes , when I saw him , were all brown . He seemed to believe in everything which was to others utterly incredible . He said one day to me , " Why don't ...
الصفحة 68
... pleasant talk his whole manner was wonderfully bright and animated , and his face shared to the full in the general animation . His laugh was a free and sounding peal , like that of a man who gives himself sympa- thetically and with ...
... pleasant talk his whole manner was wonderfully bright and animated , and his face shared to the full in the general animation . His laugh was a free and sounding peal , like that of a man who gives himself sympa- thetically and with ...
الصفحة 69
... pleasant companionship , and a certain honour and glory in it . He used to delight me as a boy by telling me how , in still earlier walks , on dark winter mornings , he had once or twice met foxes trotting home at the dawning . After ...
... pleasant companionship , and a certain honour and glory in it . He used to delight me as a boy by telling me how , in still earlier walks , on dark winter mornings , he had once or twice met foxes trotting home at the dawning . After ...
الصفحة 72
... pleasant days . He used to like to watch us playing at lawn - tennis , and often knocked up a stray ball for us with the curved handle of his stick . Though he took no personal share in the management of the garden , he had great ...
... pleasant days . He used to like to watch us playing at lawn - tennis , and often knocked up a stray ball for us with the curved handle of his stick . Though he took no personal share in the management of the garden , he had great ...
الصفحة 87
... pleasant recollections of my father's life at Down , written by our friend and former neighbour , Mrs. Wallis Nash , have been published in the Overland Monthly ( San Francisco ) , October 1890 . however , they were not deterred , he ...
... pleasant recollections of my father's life at Down , written by our friend and former neighbour , Mrs. Wallis Nash , have been published in the Overland Monthly ( San Francisco ) , October 1890 . however , they were not deterred , he ...
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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...