Life of Charles Darwin, Том 1W. Scott, 1887 - Всего страниц: 175 |
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... feel completely at ease with him ; though we were all awe - struck with the amount of his knowledge . Before I saw him I heard one young man sum up his attainments by simply saying that he knew everything . When I reflect how ...
... feel completely at ease with him ; though we were all awe - struck with the amount of his knowledge . Before I saw him I heard one young man sum up his attainments by simply saying that he knew everything . When I reflect how ...
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... feeling of vanity , envy , or jealousy . With all this equability of temper and re- markable benevolence , there was no insipidity of cha- racter . A man must have been blind not to have perceived that beneath this placid exterior there ...
... feeling of vanity , envy , or jealousy . With all this equability of temper and re- markable benevolence , there was no insipidity of cha- racter . A man must have been blind not to have perceived that beneath this placid exterior there ...
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... feel such intense delight . At an elevation of from ten to twelve thousand feet , there is a transparency in the air , and a confusion of distances , and a sort of stillness , which give the sensation of being in another world ...
... feel such intense delight . At an elevation of from ten to twelve thousand feet , there is a transparency in the air , and a confusion of distances , and a sort of stillness , which give the sensation of being in another world ...
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... feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with another , and yet to call in some extra- ordinary agent and to marvel greatly when a species ceases to exist , appears to me much the same as to admit that sickness in the ...
... feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with another , and yet to call in some extra- ordinary agent and to marvel greatly when a species ceases to exist , appears to me much the same as to admit that sickness in the ...
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... feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings , and at their confined range . Seeing every height crowned with its crater , and the boundaries of most of the lava streams still distinct , we are led to believe that ...
... feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings , and at their confined range . Seeing every height crowned with its crater , and the boundaries of most of the lava streams still distinct , we are led to believe that ...
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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.