...1859, is obvious from a passage in the first edition of " The Origin of Species." (Ed. I, p. 488.) " In the distant future I see open fields for far more...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." It is one of the curiosities of scientific literature, that, in the face of this plain declaration,...

...the theory to man was inevitable ; and in the first edition of the " Origin of Species " he says : " In the distant future I see open fields for far more...necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by graduation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." In 1871 the "Descent of Man"...

...which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form " (Ibid., p. 484). " In the distant future I see open fields for far more...power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown upon the origin of man and his history " (Ibid., p. 488). "... I view all beings, not as special creations,...

...modified ; so that we must not overrate the accuracy of organic change as a measure of time. In the future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement...

...modification to the change of circumstances. The author (1855) has also treated Psychology on the principle of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. In 1852 M. Naudin, a distinguished botanist, expressly stated, in an admirable paper on the Origin...

...passages of which he did not approve, as, for instance, the passage ('Origin,' first edition, p. 488) " Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." I have no evidence as to whether my father did or did not know of these alterations.] C. Darwin to...

...modification to the change of circumstances. The author (1855) has also treated Psychology on the principle of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. In 1852 M. Naudin, a distinguished botanist, expressly stated, in an admirable paper on the Origin...

...my teaching. Matters were at this point when the Origin of Species appeared. The weighty sentence, " Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (1st edition, p. 488), was not only in full harmony with the conclusions at which I had arrived respecting...

...one." And just before, he has said of researches such as the book is based on, that by them " much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." That is all he said at the time ; for he would be reticent till he had fully made out his case. But...

...Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity 31 by gradation. Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his...history. Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it accords better...