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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
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Bericht über die fortschritte der anatomie und physiologie ..., Volume 13

Anatomy - 1860 - 694 pages
...Englischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Dr. GH Bronn. Stuttgart. 1860. 520 S. 8. Ch. Darwin and A. Wallace, On the tendency of species to form varieties and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. Communicated by Ch....
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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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