 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1907 - 876 pages
...within a month of the opening of their correspondence Darwin confided in him (January 11, 1844) : ' I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion...are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. ... I think I have found out (here's presumption) the simple way by which species become exquisitely... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...have read heaps of agricultural and horticultural books, and have never ceased collecting facts. At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced...adaptations from the slow willing of animals," &c.! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his ; though the means of change are... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 416 pages
...have read heaps of agricultural and horticultural books, and have never ceased collecting facts. At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced...adaptations from the slow willing of animals," &c. ! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his ; though the means of change are... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...have read heaps of agricultural and horticultural books, and have never ceased collecting facts. At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced...immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a u tendency to progression/' "adaptations from the slow willing of animals/' &c.! But the conclusions... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1888 - 338 pages
...have read heaps of agricultural and horticultural books and have never ceased collecting facts. At last gleams of light have come and I am almost convinced...progression,' 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals,' etc. ! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his, though the means of change... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Biologists - 1888 - 586 pages
...have read heaps of agricultural and horticultural books, and have never ceased collecting facts. At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced...(it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfeiid me from Lamarck nonsense of a '' tendency to progression," " adaptations from the slow willing... | |
 | Edward Clodd - Cosmology - 1888 - 284 pages
...276. Referring to the same matter, Darwin says in a letter to Sir JD Hooker, dated January II, 1844, 1 Gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced...not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.'— Ibid. vol. ii. p. 23. whether galaxy which only the telescope makes known, or monad whose existence... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...have read heaps of agricultural and horticultural books, and have never ceased collecting facts. At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started \vith) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck... | |
 | Henry Fairfield Osborn - Evolution - 1894 - 284 pages
...... At last, gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion that I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing...Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency 1 See Life and Letters, Vol. II., p. 14. This was Huxley's observation upon this essay in reply to... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 580 pages
...have read heaps of agricultural and horticultural books, and have never ceased collecting facts. At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced..."adaptations from the slow willing of animals," &c.! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his ; though the means of change are... | |
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At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a " tendency to progression," " adaptations... 
