 | John Henry Morgan - Ethics - 2005 - 265 pages
...namely, the opening paragraph of The Origin of Species, 1859 edition, seems in order at this juncture: 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 orign of species... | |
 | Carol Reeves - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 152 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... | |
 | Civilization - 2004 - 494 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...present to the past inhabitants of that continent. . . .' Darwin certainly used the many facts he recorded during his five years on the Beagle in supporting... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - History - 2006 - 47 pages
...period. Darwin uses the word 'facts' in each of the first three sentences of the Origin of Species: 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... | |
 | Robert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz - Debates and debating - 2006 - 360 pages
...presenting himself as a passive witness to active facts rather than as a theorist with an active mind. "When on board HMS 'Beagle' as naturalist, I was much...present to the past inhabitants of that continent." Each subsequent sentence in the opening paragraph stresses facts and observation and minimizes theory.... | |
 | Sean B. Carroll - Science - 2006 - 326 pages
...would emerge more than twenty years later as On the Origin of Species, the opening lines of which read: When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much...relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent. These facts . . . seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery... | |
 | Johannes Schneider, Scott Kirkpatrick - Computers - 2007 - 568 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... | |
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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. 
