Life of Charles Darwin, Том 1W. Scott, 1887 - Всего страниц: 175 |
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... become the first really famous . man of the family . Erasmus Darwin's personal characteristics , his medical talents , and his poetic writings were such as to over- shadow , for his own generation , his scientific merit . We have not ...
... become the first really famous . man of the family . Erasmus Darwin's personal characteristics , his medical talents , and his poetic writings were such as to over- shadow , for his own generation , his scientific merit . We have not ...
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... becoming a clergyman of the Church of England . It might have been thought that there was scant stimulus for a biological student in the Cambridge of that period ; but although the old literary and mathe- matical studies were still the ...
... becoming a clergyman of the Church of England . It might have been thought that there was scant stimulus for a biological student in the Cambridge of that period ; but although the old literary and mathe- matical studies were still the ...
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... become truly a Master of Science , which at that time was adequately recognised by no university in the British dominions . The memorable voyage of the Beagle , a little barque of 242 tons , was at first delayed by heavy gales which ...
... become truly a Master of Science , which at that time was adequately recognised by no university in the British dominions . The memorable voyage of the Beagle , a little barque of 242 tons , was at first delayed by heavy gales which ...
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... becomes more surprising that he should not have with- drawn early from his adventurous course . But his energy and resolution were equal to any drafts upon them , and the delights of the study of nature outweighed all physical ...
... becomes more surprising that he should not have with- drawn early from his adventurous course . But his energy and resolution were equal to any drafts upon them , and the delights of the study of nature outweighed all physical ...
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... become extinct , to be succeeded in modern times by the count- less herds descended from the few horses introduced by the Spanish colonists . These and other strange facts in the distribution of mammalian animals in America led Darwin ...
... become extinct , to be succeeded in modern times by the count- less herds descended from the few horses introduced by the Spanish colonists . These and other strange facts in the distribution of mammalian animals in America led Darwin ...
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Стр. 94 - 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. 93 - When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a long history...
Стр. 65 - When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.
Стр. 122 - The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party of Fuegians on a wild and broken shore will never be forgotten by me, for the reflection at once rushed into my mind— such were our ancestors.
Стр. 82 - Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult — at least I have found it so — than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. Yet unless it be thoroughly engrained in the mind, the whole economy of nature, with every fact on distribution, rarity, abundance, extinction, and variation, will be dimly seen or quite misunderstood.
Стр. 83 - But on looking closely between the stems of the heath, I found a multitude of seedlings and little trees which had been perpetually browsed down by the cattle. In one square yard, at a point some...
Стр. 86 - The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs ; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups.
Стр. 84 - When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
Стр. 86 - ... extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups. Of the many twigs which flourished when the tree was a mere bush, only two or three, now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear the other branches ; so with the species which lived during long-past geological periods, very few have left living and modified descendants.