Life of Charles Darwin, Volumen1W. Scott, 1887 - 175 páginas |
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... race descend , that the distance between it and the negro appeared small indeed , The remarkable absence of trees in the country could not fail to provoke comment ; but it is on the old- fashioned basis , and the young student does not ...
... race descend , that the distance between it and the negro appeared small indeed , The remarkable absence of trees in the country could not fail to provoke comment ; but it is on the old- fashioned basis , and the young student does not ...
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... races . The remains of nine great kinds of quadrupeds chiefly allied to the sloths were found embedded on the beach within a space of about two hundred yards square ; and these were associated with shells of molluscs of still existing ...
... races . The remains of nine great kinds of quadrupeds chiefly allied to the sloths were found embedded on the beach within a space of about two hundred yards square ; and these were associated with shells of molluscs of still existing ...
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... races . " But he does not yet go farther . He ends his reflections by observing : " All that at present can be said with certainty is that , as with the individual , so with the species , the hour of life has run its course , and is ...
... races . " But he does not yet go farther . He ends his reflections by observing : " All that at present can be said with certainty is that , as with the individual , so with the species , the hour of life has run its course , and is ...
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... races . Having attended to the habits of animals , and their relations to the surrounding con- ditions , I was able to realise the severe struggle for existence to which all organisms are subjected ; and my geological observations had ...
... races . Having attended to the habits of animals , and their relations to the surrounding con- ditions , I was able to realise the severe struggle for existence to which all organisms are subjected ; and my geological observations had ...
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... races in the struggle for life , or , as Herbert Spencer put it , the survival of the fittest . At one bound the gloomy revela- tions of misery which the " Essay on Population " con- tained , were exchanged for the bright view of ...
... races in the struggle for life , or , as Herbert Spencer put it , the survival of the fittest . At one bound the gloomy revela- tions of misery which the " Essay on Population " con- tained , were exchanged for the bright view of ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 152 - It is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass every few years, through the bodies of worms. The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land...
Página 32 - Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.