The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volumen2D. Appleton, 1887 |
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Including an Autobiographical Chapter Charles Darwin Sir Francis Darwin. C. Darwin to L. Agassiz . * Down , November 11th [ 1859 ] . MY DEAR SIR , -I have ventured to send you a copy of my book ( as yet only an abstract ) on the ' Origin ...
Including an Autobiographical Chapter Charles Darwin Sir Francis Darwin. C. Darwin to L. Agassiz . * Down , November 11th [ 1859 ] . MY DEAR SIR , -I have ventured to send you a copy of my book ( as yet only an abstract ) on the ' Origin ...
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Including an Autobiographical Chapter Charles Darwin Sir Francis Darwin. C. Darwin to Asa Gray . Down , November 11th [ 1859 ] . MY DEAR GRAY , -I have directed a copy of my book ( as yet only an abstract ) on the ' Origin of Species ...
Including an Autobiographical Chapter Charles Darwin Sir Francis Darwin. C. Darwin to Asa Gray . Down , November 11th [ 1859 ] . MY DEAR GRAY , -I have directed a copy of my book ( as yet only an abstract ) on the ' Origin of Species ...
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... DEAR SIR , -I have told Murray to send you by post ( if possible ) a copy of my book , and I hope that you will receive it at nearly the same time with this note . ( N.B. I have got a bad finger , which makes me write extra badly . ) If ...
... DEAR SIR , -I have told Murray to send you by post ( if possible ) a copy of my book , and I hope that you will receive it at nearly the same time with this note . ( N.B. I have got a bad finger , which makes me write extra badly . ) If ...
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... DEAR SIR , —- Once commenced to read the ' Origin , ' I could not rest till I had galloped through the whole . I shall now begin to re - read it more deliberately . Meantime I am tempted to write you the first impressions , not doubting ...
... DEAR SIR , —- Once commenced to read the ' Origin , ' I could not rest till I had galloped through the whole . I shall now begin to re - read it more deliberately . Meantime I am tempted to write you the first impressions , not doubting ...
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... DEAR DARWIN , -I am a sinner not to have written you ere this , if only to thank you for your glorious book- what a mass of close reasoning on curious facts and fresh phenomena - it is capitally written , and will be very success- ful ...
... DEAR DARWIN , -I am a sinner not to have written you ere this , if only to thank you for your glorious book- what a mass of close reasoning on curious facts and fresh phenomena - it is capitally written , and will be very success- ful ...
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Página 71 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Página 203 - It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin of life ; one might as well think of the origin of matter.
Página 427 - From quotations which I had seen I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.
Página 115 - I asserted — and I repeat — that a man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who, not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance...
Página 215 - ... d'avec les especes." Mr. Huxley remarks on this, " Being devoid of the blessings of an Academy in England, we are unaccustomed to see our ablest men treated in this way even by a Perpetual Secretary.
Página 297 - We know, however, that this has been done ; and we must therefore admit the possibility that, if we are not the highest intelligences in the universe, some higher intelligence may have directed the process by which the human race was developed, by means of more subtle agencies than we are acquainted with.
Página 78 - Ah my God, What might I not have made of thy fair world, Had I but loved thy highest creature here ? It was my duty to have loved the highest: It surely was my profit had I known : It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.
Página 203 - It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh! what a big if) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc. present, that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case...