 | Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1872 - 382 pages
...But our most ambitious schemes of philosophy now start quite differently. Mr. Darwin begins : — " 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1873 - 492 pages
...la 18 ORIGIN OF SPECIES. INTRODUCTION. WHEN on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much strr.ck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...INTRODUCTION. WHEN on board HMS 'Bcaglo,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in tho distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South...relations of the present to the past inhabitants of th.it continent. These facts, as will be seen in tho latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1880 - 338 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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1881 - 656 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...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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1882 - 492 pages
...November 24th, 1859, and the second edition oil January 7th, 1860. ORIGIN OF SPECIES. INTRODUCTION. WBKH 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1882 - 494 pages
...and the second edition on January 7th, 1860. ORIGIN OF SPECIES. INTRODUCTION. WHEN on board II.MS ' Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1882 - 634 pages
...on ' The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ' — that when on board the ' Beagle ' he was much struck with certain facts in the distribution...past inhabitants of that continent. 'These facts,' he says, 'seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it... | |
 | Biology - 1882 - 1216 pages
...the origin of species, suggested by his observations on the South American coast, particularly by " certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings...present to the past inhabitants of that continent" The " Origin of Species" was issued in November, 1859, an(^ was designed as an abstract of a more extended... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - 900 pages
...asked him how ho came to make his great discoveries, he replied, " By always thinking about them." " South America, and in the Geological relations of...present to the past inhabitants of that continent, seemed to " throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of " mysteries, as it has been... | |
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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. 
