Life of Charles Darwin, 1권W. Scott, 1887 - 175페이지 |
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... not secure fair treat- ment and impartial judgment for the coming book , the subject of which might be supposed to require supreme gifts of the very kind Darwin possessed . CHAPTER IV . F no other record of Darwin's twenty DARWIN . 63.
... not secure fair treat- ment and impartial judgment for the coming book , the subject of which might be supposed to require supreme gifts of the very kind Darwin possessed . CHAPTER IV . F no other record of Darwin's twenty DARWIN . 63.
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... ment shone out . To end the reign of Owen's misleading types and imaginary archetypes , there arose a wielder of two potent words , " morphology " and " biology , " the sciences of form and of life , who showed that differences of adult ...
... ment shone out . To end the reign of Owen's misleading types and imaginary archetypes , there arose a wielder of two potent words , " morphology " and " biology , " the sciences of form and of life , who showed that differences of adult ...
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... ment of them for the purpose required . . . . The third great want among animals is that of security , which seems much to have diversified the forms of their bodies and the colour of them . . . The contrivances for the purposes of ...
... ment of them for the purpose required . . . . The third great want among animals is that of security , which seems much to have diversified the forms of their bodies and the colour of them . . . The contrivances for the purposes of ...
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... ment ; their bodies were provided with a tail , and the foot was probably prehensile . Our primitive ancestors lived chiefly in trees in some warm forest - clad land , and the males were provided with formidable weapons in the shape of ...
... ment ; their bodies were provided with a tail , and the foot was probably prehensile . Our primitive ancestors lived chiefly in trees in some warm forest - clad land , and the males were provided with formidable weapons in the shape of ...
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... ? A masterly series of experiments was forthwith set on foot , with the result of proving that sun - dews and a number of other plants obtain the bulk of their nourish- ment by catching , killing , and digesting insects .
... ? A masterly series of experiments was forthwith set on foot , with the result of proving that sun - dews and a number of other plants obtain the bulk of their nourish- ment by catching , killing , and digesting insects .
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94 페이지 - 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.
65 페이지 - 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.
93 페이지 - 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...
122 페이지 - 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.
82 페이지 - 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.
83 페이지 - 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...
86 페이지 - 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.
86 페이지 - ... 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.
152 페이지 - 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...
32 페이지 - 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.