The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1 |
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Page 54
... South America . As far as I can judge of myself , I worked to the utmost during the voyage from the mere pleasure of investigation , and from my strong desire to add a few facts to the great mass of facts in Natural Science . But I was ...
... South America . As far as I can judge of myself , I worked to the utmost during the voyage from the mere pleasure of investigation , and from my strong desire to add a few facts to the great mass of facts in Natural Science . But I was ...
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... South America , I attributed the parallel lines to the action of the sea ; but I had to give up this view when Agassiz propounded his glacier- lake theory . Because no other explanation was possible under our then state of knowledge , I ...
... South America , I attributed the parallel lines to the action of the sea ; but I had to give up this view when Agassiz propounded his glacier- lake theory . Because no other explanation was possible under our then state of knowledge , I ...
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... South America , before I had seen a true coral reef . I had therefore only to verify and extend my views by a care- ful examination of living reefs . But it should be observed that I had during the two previous years been incessantly at ...
... South America , before I had seen a true coral reef . I had therefore only to verify and extend my views by a care- ful examination of living reefs . But it should be observed that I had during the two previous years been incessantly at ...
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... South America ' were pub- lished . I record in a little diary , which I have always kept , that my three geological books ( Coral Reefs ' included ) con- sumed four and a half years ' steady work ; " and now it is ten years since my ...
... South America ' were pub- lished . I record in a little diary , which I have always kept , that my three geological books ( Coral Reefs ' included ) con- sumed four and a half years ' steady work ; " and now it is ten years since my ...
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... South American character of most of the pro- ductions of the Galapagos archipelago , and more especially by the manner in which they differ slightly on each island of the group ; none of the islands appearing to be very ancient in a ...
... South American character of most of the pro- ductions of the Galapagos archipelago , and more especially by the manner in which they differ slightly on each island of the group ; none of the islands appearing to be very ancient in a ...
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