 On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years...  Nature - Page 312edited by - 1881Full view - About this book
 | 1860 - 564 pages
...mysteries, as one of our greatest philosophers has called it ; and on his return home it occurred to him, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out...question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing upon it. After five years' work, he allowed... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 pages
...one of our greatest philosophers has called it ; and on his return home it occurred to him, in 1 837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing upon it. After five years' work, he allowed... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return...question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return...question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed... | |
 | 1866 - 908 pages
...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. On my return...question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - 770 pages
...inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants ofthat continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter...occurred to me in 1837 that something might perhaps Ire made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting upon all sorts of facts which... | |
 | 1883 - 990 pages
...greatest philosophers"; and he tells us that, soon after his return home in 1837, it occurred to him "that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing upon it." We know from his own statement... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1872 - 382 pages
...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. On my return...question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 pages
...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. On my return...occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be 1 made'otit on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on nil sorts of facts which could... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1874 - 820 pages
...return home," he tells us in his introduction to the Origin of Species, " it occurred to me in 1887 that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years work I allowed... | |
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