 | Gordon Miller - Nature - 2000 - 266 pages
...through salt-water, than could the slimy spawn of frogs? From The Origin of Species (1859) Introduction When on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist. I was much...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of... | |
 | Bruce S. Lieberman - Science - 2000 - 230 pages
...naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhahiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhebitants of that continent. These facts. as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume,... | |
 | Bagehot - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 300 pages
...thing. But our most ambitious schemes of philosophy now start quite differently. Mr Darwin begins:'When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of... | |
 | Leslie Alan Horvitz - Science - 2001 - 356 pages
...Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of...inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called... | |
 | Govindan Parayil - Social Science - 2002 - 224 pages
...'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of...inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species— that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called... | |
 | David Simpson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 308 pages
...Becyle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants ofthat continent." 33 The information passed on here is much the same as it would be in a sentence... | |
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These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. 
