Life of Charles Darwin, Volumen1W. Scott, 1887 - 175 páginas |
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... interest with sketches of his most important works . Like other biographers of Darwin , I am much indebted to Mr. Woodall's valuable memoir , contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæo- logical Society . But original ...
... interest with sketches of his most important works . Like other biographers of Darwin , I am much indebted to Mr. Woodall's valuable memoir , contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæo- logical Society . But original ...
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... interest , notwithstand- ing that her death when he was only eight years old cut short her opportunities of influencing him . She was born at Burslem in January , 1765 , and a year after her father describes her as a " fine , sprightly ...
... interest , notwithstand- ing that her death when he was only eight years old cut short her opportunities of influencing him . She was born at Burslem in January , 1765 , and a year after her father describes her as a " fine , sprightly ...
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... interest in mechanism . One especially remembered youthful treat . was when his uncle Josiah Wedgwood explained to him the principle of the vernier . No doubt the pigeons , the exotics , the shrubs and flowers of his father's grounds ...
... interest in mechanism . One especially remembered youthful treat . was when his uncle Josiah Wedgwood explained to him the principle of the vernier . No doubt the pigeons , the exotics , the shrubs and flowers of his father's grounds ...
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... interest in its affairs throughout life , being elected a member of its council in 1838. As early as January 4 , 1836 , a memoir based on insects sent home by Darwin from Chiloe , was read before the Society by Charles Babington , now ...
... interest in its affairs throughout life , being elected a member of its council in 1838. As early as January 4 , 1836 , a memoir based on insects sent home by Darwin from Chiloe , was read before the Society by Charles Babington , now ...
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... interest the most trifling observation in any branch of natural history , and however absurd a blunder one might make , he pointed it out so clearly and kindly , that one left him in no way disheartened , but only determined to be more ...
... interest the most trifling observation in any branch of natural history , and however absurd a blunder one might make , he pointed it out so clearly and kindly , that one left him in no way disheartened , but only determined to be more ...
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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 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. These men were absolutely naked and bedaubed with paint, their long hair was tangled, their mouths frothed with excitement, and their expression was wild, startled, and distrustful.
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 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 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 122 - ... for the reflection at once rushed into my mind — such were our ancestors. These men were absolutely naked and bedaubed with paint, their long hair was tangled, their mouths frothed with excitement, and their expression was wild, startled, and distrustful. They possessed hardly any arts, and like wild animals lived on what they could catch; they had no government, and were merciless to every one not of their own small tribe.
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...