 | 1860 - Страниц: 564
...mysteries, as one of our greatest philosophers has called it ; and on his return home it occurred to him, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out...question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing upon it. After five years' work, he allowed... | |
 | 1860 - Страниц: 966
...palaeontology of South America, which appeared to throw '' some light on the Origin of Species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers."* After five years had elapsed in accumulating observations and reflecting upon them, he allowed himself... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - Страниц: 470
...inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one...question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - Страниц: 472
...inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one...question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed... | |
 | 1866 - Страниц: 908
...inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species—that...question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - Страниц: 406
...inhabitants of that 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.' Thus are we enabled to fix a date for the first suggestion of that theory which appears in its full... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - Страниц: 424
...inhabitants of that 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.' Thus are we enabled to fix a date for the first suggestion of that theory which appears in its full... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - Страниц: 770
...seemed to throw some light on the origin of species ; that mystery of mysteries, as it has been termed by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return...occurred to me in 1837 that something might perhaps Ire made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting upon all sorts of facts which... | |
 | 1883 - Страниц: 990
...classes of facts here referred to seemed to him "to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers"; and he tells us that, soon after his return home in 1837, it occurred to him "that something might... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1872 - Страниц: 382
...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...question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed... | |
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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' work I allowed... 
