The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1901 - Naturalists |
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... theories to the utmost . Erasmus had a strong love of all kinds of mechanism , for which Charles Darwin had no taste . Neither had Charles Darwin the literary temperament which made Erasmus a poet as well as a philosopher . He writes of ...
... theories to the utmost . Erasmus had a strong love of all kinds of mechanism , for which Charles Darwin had no taste . Neither had Charles Darwin the literary temperament which made Erasmus a poet as well as a philosopher . He writes of ...
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... theory for almost everything which occurred . do not think I gained much from him intellectually ; but his example ought to have been of much moral service to all his children . One of his golden rules ( a hard one to follow ) was ...
... theory for almost everything which occurred . do not think I gained much from him intellectually ; but his example ought to have been of much moral service to all his children . One of his golden rules ( a hard one to follow ) was ...
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... theory . Because no other explanation was possible under our then state of knowledge , I argued in favor of sea - action ; and my error has been a good lesson to me never to trust in science to the principle of exclusion . As I was not ...
... theory . Because no other explanation was possible under our then state of knowledge , I argued in favor of sea - action ; and my error has been a good lesson to me never to trust in science to the principle of exclusion . As I was not ...
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... theory therein given is , I think , now well established . No other work of mine was begun in so deductive a spirit as this , for the whole theory was thought out on the west coast of South America , before I had seen a true coral reef ...
... theory therein given is , I think , now well established . No other work of mine was begun in so deductive a spirit as this , for the whole theory was thought out on the west coast of South America , before I had seen a true coral reef ...
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... theory , though he had gained much fame by opposing Lamarck's views , and this after he had grown old . He reminded me that I had * Philosophical Magazine , ' 1842 . The slight repetition here observable is accounted for by the notes on ...
... theory , though he had gained much fame by opposing Lamarck's views , and this after he had grown old . He reminded me that I had * Philosophical Magazine , ' 1842 . The slight repetition here observable is accounted for by the notes on ...
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