 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 406 páginas
...In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views. In 1846 the veteran geologist MJ d'Omalius d'Halloy published in an excellent though short paper ('... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 páginas
...In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views.' By his Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1847) he gave an impulse to the study of Scottish folklore. His... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1903 - 832 páginas
...In my opinion, it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views " (' Origin of Species,' 6th ed., 1872 p. xvii). In a history of European thought it is well to mention... | |
 | Lady Chambers Priestley - 1908 - 416 páginas
...In my opinion it had done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views." When my father was contemplating writing this book so far in advance of the period, he felt, after... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 584 páginas
...In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views. In 1846 the veteran geologist MJ d'Omalius d'Halloy published in an excellent though short paper ('... | |
 | A.C. SEWARD - 1909 - 800 páginas
...sowing. As Darwin said, "it did excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views1." Its author, Robert Chambers (1802 — 1871) was in part a Buffonian — maintaining that environment... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 460 páginas
...Darwin's judgement it had done excellent service in calling attention in this country to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views. He also speaks of the want of accuracy and scientific caution shown in the earlier editions ; and the... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 468 páginas
...Darwin's judgement it had done excellent service in calling attention in this country to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views. He also speaks of the want of accuracy and scientific caution shown in the earlier editions ; and the... | |
 | 1922 - 1578 páginas
...In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views.' When the 'Vestiges' were disposed of, Chambers returned to Edinburgh and resumed the writing and editing... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1924 - 426 páginas
...Darwin truly says, " done excellent service in this country, in calling attention to this subjedt, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views." 8 The work neither made any addition to ideas which had been long familiar, nor arranged old ones in... | |
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The work, from its powerful and brilliant style, though displaying in the earlier editions little accurate knowledge and a great want of scientific caution, immediately had a very wide circulation. In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country... 
