Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History SocietyShropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society., 1885 |
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... father's and mother's families which certainly had something to do with the evolution of his genius and character ... father and grandfather derived their Christian names . It was one of the two sons of Williain Darwin and Miss Waring ...
... father's and mother's families which certainly had something to do with the evolution of his genius and character ... father and grandfather derived their Christian names . It was one of the two sons of Williain Darwin and Miss Waring ...
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... the like- ness between Dr. Darwin of Lichfield and his more illustrious descendant . Erasmus , indeed , was the in- tellectual father of Charles , and was in many ways an excellent man , but in the life of the grandson CHARLES DARWIN . 3.
... the like- ness between Dr. Darwin of Lichfield and his more illustrious descendant . Erasmus , indeed , was the in- tellectual father of Charles , and was in many ways an excellent man , but in the life of the grandson CHARLES DARWIN . 3.
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... father's definition of a fool , that he could spend thirty years over a single experiment , and he waited to present his theories to the world until they seemed to be established by the accumulated results of observa- tion and ...
... father's definition of a fool , that he could spend thirty years over a single experiment , and he waited to present his theories to the world until they seemed to be established by the accumulated results of observa- tion and ...
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... father who is described as " acute , kindly , independent , patriotic . " While he was still young Josiah began to learn the potter's handicraft , and soon showed signs of the talent that made his name famous . His patience was the ...
... father who is described as " acute , kindly , independent , patriotic . " While he was still young Josiah began to learn the potter's handicraft , and soon showed signs of the talent that made his name famous . His patience was the ...
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... father died in 1795 , the year before she was married . Charles Darwin says of his father , that " he did not inherit any aptitude for poetry or mechanics , nor did he possess , as I think , a scientific mind . I cannot tell why my father's ...
... father died in 1795 , the year before she was married . Charles Darwin says of his father , that " he did not inherit any aptitude for poetry or mechanics , nor did he possess , as I think , a scientific mind . I cannot tell why my father's ...
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Стр. 50 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Стр. 50 - 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.
Стр. 427 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Стр. 50 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being growth with reproduction; inheritance, which is almost implied by reproduction; variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Стр. 61 - For my own part, I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper, or from that old baboon, who descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs — as from a savage...
Стр. 61 - Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale ; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hope for a still higher destiny in the distant future.
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. 56 - 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. 60 - I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.
Стр. 427 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.