Charles Darwin: A Paper Contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological SocietyAdnitt and Nauton, 1884 - Всего страниц: 64 |
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... writer lays no claim to the knowledge which is necessary in dealing with scientific enquiries . He was asked to prepare this short paper , and consented because it seemed to him that the Transactions of the Shropshire Natural History ...
... writer lays no claim to the knowledge which is necessary in dealing with scientific enquiries . He was asked to prepare this short paper , and consented because it seemed to him that the Transactions of the Shropshire Natural History ...
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... writing in the Philosophical Transactions of April and May , 1719 , If Mr. Galton had devoted a chapter to ... writers of our own day the name of Wedgwood survives ; and another descendant was Sir Henry Holland , the author and physician ...
... writing in the Philosophical Transactions of April and May , 1719 , If Mr. Galton had devoted a chapter to ... writers of our own day the name of Wedgwood survives ; and another descendant was Sir Henry Holland , the author and physician ...
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... writer had not won a more enduring fame as a student of nature , an original thinker , and a vigorous friend of humanity . Yet , so unsuccessful was he in convincing his con- temporaries , that a writer in the second volume of the ...
... writer had not won a more enduring fame as a student of nature , an original thinker , and a vigorous friend of humanity . Yet , so unsuccessful was he in convincing his con- temporaries , that a writer in the second volume of the ...
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... writer's death . In all these works , as well as in the Botanic Garden , the curious student finds many observations shadowing forth the conclusions which have been reached in a more scientific way by the author of the Descent of Man ...
... writer's death . In all these works , as well as in the Botanic Garden , the curious student finds many observations shadowing forth the conclusions which have been reached in a more scientific way by the author of the Descent of Man ...
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... Writing to his son at Shrews- bury , with reference to a small debt , Erasmus asks him to use the money in buying a goose pie , for which , it seems , Shrewsbury was then famous , and to send it at Christmas to an old woman at ...
... Writing to his son at Shrews- bury , with reference to a small debt , Erasmus asks him to use the money in buying a goose pie , for which , it seems , Shrewsbury was then famous , and to send it at Christmas to an old woman at ...
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Стр. 22 - These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species —that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.
Стр. 23 - America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent. These facts seemed to throw some light on the origin of species, — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home it occurred to me (in 1837) that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years I allowed myself to...
Стр. 54 - It is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass every few years, through the bodies of worms. The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land...
Стр. 58 - I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.
Стр. 31 - They forget, or will not remember, that human sacrifices, and the power of an idolatrous priesthood — a system of profligacy unparalleled in any other part of the world — infanticide a consequence of that system — bloody wars, where the conquerors spared neither women nor children — that all these have been abolished ; and that dishonesty, intemperance, and licentiousness have been greatly reduced by the introduction of Christianity.
Стр. 47 - ... thus stuck to the back of the bee and carried away. " When the bee, thus provided, flies to another flower, or to the same flower a second time, and is pushed by its comrades into the bucket, and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass upon its back necessarily comes first into contact with the viscid stigma," which takes up the pollen ; and this is how that orchid is fertilized.
Стр. 40 - ... species were descended from a common ancestor. But during several years I could not conceive how each form could have been modified so as to become admirably adapted to its place in nature. I began, therefore, to study domesticated animals and cultivated plants, and after a time perceived that man's power of selecting and breeding from certain individuals was the most powerful of all means in the production of new races. Having attended to the habits of animals and their relations to the surrounding...
Стр. 30 - In regard to the wildness of birds towards man, there is no way of accounting for it, except as an inherited habit. Comparatively few young birds, in any one year, have been injured by man in England ; yet almost all, even nestlings, are afraid of him. Many individuals, on the other hand, both at the Galapagos and at the Falklands, have been pursued and injured by man, but yet have not learned a salutary dread of him.
Стр. 40 - The work, from its powerful and brilliant style, though displaying in the earlier editions little accurate knowledge and a great want of scientific caution, immediately had a very wide circulation. In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views.
Стр. 47 - The basal part of the labellum stands over the bucket, and is itself hollowed out into a sort of chamber with two lateral entrances ; within this chamber there are curious fleshy ridges. The most ingenious man, if he had not witnessed what takes place, could never have imagined what purpose all these parts serve.