 | Gordon Miller - 2000 - 266 pages
...Origin of Species (1859) Introduction When on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist. I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...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. On... | |
 | Bruce S. Lieberman - 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 - 2001 - 300 pages
...start quite differently. Mr Darwin begins:'When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...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. On... | |
 | Leslie Alan Horvitz - 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...the past 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... | |
 | Susan L. Mizruchi - 2001 - 300 pages
...introduced his subject in On the Origin of Species in the same terms: "the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers."38 Like Darwin, Morgan was also concerned with how to understand creation, Divine and... | |
 | Govindan Parayil - 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...the past 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... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 2002 - 234 pages
...by announcing his detectivelike determination "to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers." He was alluding to John Herschel's expression of wonder in a letter to Charles Lyell, "That mystery... | |
 | David Simpson - 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2003 - 676 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 seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 312 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 seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has... | |
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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. 
