Life of Charles Darwin, Том 1W. Scott, 1887 - Всего страниц: 175 |
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... probable : from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object . I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details , as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision ...
... probable : from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object . I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details , as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision ...
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... probable hypotheses , confirming them by his vast and varied knowledge , and building a superstructure where they had laid but an uncertain foundation . The question was in the air ; guessing replies of great interest were made by a few ...
... probable hypotheses , confirming them by his vast and varied knowledge , and building a superstructure where they had laid but an uncertain foundation . The question was in the air ; guessing replies of great interest were made by a few ...
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... probable that it may be carried on through the intervention of intermediate causes . I left this rather to be inferred , not thinking it worth while to offend a certain class of persons by embodying in words what would only be a ...
... probable that it may be carried on through the intervention of intermediate causes . I left this rather to be inferred , not thinking it worth while to offend a certain class of persons by embodying in words what would only be a ...
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... probable that allied species were descended from a common ancestor . But during several years I could not conceive how each form could have been modi- fied so as to become admirably adapted to its place in nature . I began , therefore ...
... probable that allied species were descended from a common ancestor . But during several years I could not conceive how each form could have been modi- fied so as to become admirably adapted to its place in nature . I began , therefore ...
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... probable , I have , at least , as I hope , done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations . " · The sixth edition ( 1872 ) , in smaller type , was con- siderably revised and altered , and remains permanent . A ...
... probable , I have , at least , as I hope , done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations . " · The sixth edition ( 1872 ) , in smaller type , was con- siderably revised and altered , and remains permanent . A ...
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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.