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" After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable; from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued... "
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter - Page 372
by Charles Darwin - 1887 - 395 pages
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 iuto a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable : from...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable : from...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 6

Great Britain - 1866 - 908 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable : from...
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The English Constitution

Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1872 - 382 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable : from...
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1873 - 492 pages
...reflecting on nil sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. Afier five years' work 1 allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable : from...
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Unconscious Memory

Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1880 - 338 pages
...reflecting upon all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable : from that...
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The Relations of Science and Religion: The Morse Lecture, 1880, Connected ...

Henry Calderwood - Religion and science - 1881 - 366 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable: from that...
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The Relations of Science and Religion: The Morse Lecture, 1880, Connected ...

Henry Calderwood - Religion and science - 1881 - 366 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After ' t five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short a* .. notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable:...
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The Modern review, a quarterly magazine (ed. by R.A. Armstrong)., Volume 3

Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - 900 pages
...sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it." " After five years' work," he continues, " I allowed myself " to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; " these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions " which then seemed to me probable; from...
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The English Constitution

Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1882 - 426 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short note's ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable...
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