 | Samuel Butler - 1924 - Страниц: 288
...Mr. Allen complains would be general, if he had not so claimed it. The Origin of Species begins : " When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much...inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relation of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw... | |
 | George Milton Janes - 1925 - Страниц: 188
...student of society must build on the same scientific and comparative method. As Darwin himself says: "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... | |
 | 1921 - Страниц: 498
...do. I like to read Darwin's account of the preparation of his great work on The Origin of Species: When on board HMS "Beagle" as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America These facts .... seemed to throw some light on the origin of... | |
 | Willis Linn Jepson - 1895 - Страниц: 212
...can seize it. The first strain of the prelude with which the ' Origin' commences are these words: ' When on board HMS "Beagle" as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America.' But this sort of vein is not struck at hazard or by him who... | |
 | Loren C. Eiseley - 1969 - Страниц: 256
...finally draw him into total seclusion. In the first edition of the Origin of Species he was to write: "When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts. . . . These facts seemed to ... throw light on the origin of species. . . ." The remark is true, but... | |
 | Hardy Hoover - 1980 - Страниц: 228
...method hy discussing five typical paragraphs. The following one was written in 1859. When on hoard HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distrihution of organic heings inhahiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present... | |
 | John Huntington - 1982 - Страниц: 230
...opening lines of his introduction to The Origin of Species Darwin describes himself as having been "much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America," Sir Richard Owen finds the word inhabitants bothersome: "Mr. Darwin must be aware of what is commonly... | |
 | Esa Saarinen - 1982 - Страниц: 388
...classification of living organisms. He commences the Origin of Species (1859): "When on board HMS 'Beagle' as a naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America". Later (Chapter XIII), he writes "Oceanic islands are sometimes... | |
 | D. S. Bendall - 1983 - Страниц: 612
...nature of consciousness. Descent with modification The first sentence of The Origin of Species reads: 'When on board HMS "Beagle", as naturalist, I was...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... | |
 | Ernst Mayr - 1982 - Страниц: 996
...legitimate. Common Descent and Patterns of Geographical Distribution The first sentences in the Origin are, "When on board HMS 'Beagle', as naturalist, I was...the distribution of the inhabitants of South America . . . These facts 439 seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of... | |
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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. 
