Life of Charles Darwin, Volumen1W. Scott, 1887 - 175 páginas |
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Página 118
... close our eyes , we may , with our present knowledge , approximately recognize our parentage ; nor need we feel ashamed of it . The most humble organism is something much higher than the inorganic dust under our feet ; and no one with ...
... close our eyes , we may , with our present knowledge , approximately recognize our parentage ; nor need we feel ashamed of it . The most humble organism is something much higher than the inorganic dust under our feet ; and no one with ...
Página 128
... close to the thick glass - plate in front of a puff - adder in the Zoological Gardens , with the firm determination of not starting back if the snake struck at me ; but as soon as the blow was struck , my resolution went for nothing ...
... close to the thick glass - plate in front of a puff - adder in the Zoological Gardens , with the firm determination of not starting back if the snake struck at me ; but as soon as the blow was struck , my resolution went for nothing ...
Página 131
... close , and protruded their lips towards the image , as if to kiss it , in exactly the same manner as they had previously done towards each other when first placed , a few days before , in the same room . They next made all sorts of ...
... close , and protruded their lips towards the image , as if to kiss it , in exactly the same manner as they had previously done towards each other when first placed , a few days before , in the same room . They next made all sorts of ...
Página 134
... close the book , describing as they do the probable expressions of our early ancestors , their utility , the value of differences of physiognomy , and the desirability or otherwise of repressing signs of emotion . The subject , says the ...
... close the book , describing as they do the probable expressions of our early ancestors , their utility , the value of differences of physiognomy , and the desirability or otherwise of repressing signs of emotion . The subject , says the ...
Página 149
... close to us with the tran- quillity which tells of good masters , and I heard the joyful barking of dogs . Truly , ' I said to myself , ' the history of the variations of animals was written here , and observations must be going on ...
... close to us with the tran- quillity which tells of good masters , and I heard the joyful barking of dogs . Truly , ' I said to myself , ' the history of the variations of animals was written here , and observations must be going on ...
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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.