 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...manner in which species of all kinds can be classed under genera, genera under families, families under sub-orders, and so forth ; and I can remember the...of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to" Early in 1856 Lyell advised me to write out my views pretty fully, and I began at once... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1894 - 392 pages
...except on the principle of Columbus and his egg, how I could have overlooked it and its solution. ... I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in...me ; and this was long after I had come to Down." Now the coming to Down was on "September 14, 1842." A comparison of these dates will show that the... | |
 | W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - Instinct - 1894 - 536 pages
...kinds can be classed under genera, genera under families, families under sub-orders, and so forth. The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring...of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly diversified places in the economy of Nature." This great proposition may,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1894 - 504 pages
...organic beings descended from the same stock to diverge in character as they become modified. . . . The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring...of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly diversified places in the economy of nature." (1. p. 84.) It is curious... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Biography - 1895 - 476 pages
...manner in which species of all kinds can be classed under genera, genera under families, families under sub-orders, . and so forth ; and I can remember the...of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly diversified places in the economy of nature. Early in 1856 Lyell advised... | |
 | Frank Cramer - Evolution - 1896 - 246 pages
...diverged was proved by their arrangement into groups within groups. " I can remember," he went on, "the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage,...me ; and this was long after I had come to Down." 1 The solution was this, — "that the modified offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 492 pages
...manner in which species of all kinds can be classed under genera, genera under families, families under sub-orders, and so forth: and I can remember the very...of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly diversified places in the economy of nature. Early in 1856 Lyell advised... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1897 - 598 pages
...manner in which species of all kinds can be classed under genera, genera under families, families under sub-orders and so forth ; and I can remember the very...the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solu- / tion occurred to me ; and this was long after I had come to Down. The solution, as I believe,... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - English language - 1900 - 520 pages
...understanding simplifies and arranges a heterogeneous and disorderly mass of facts. If an explanation makes 1 " I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in...carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me." — " Life and Letters of Charles Darwin." New York, 1888. Vol. I., p 69. the people who read it see... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1914 - 1180 pages
...unconscious process that suddenly awakes, ejaculating "Eureka." Darwin said regarding one of his problems: "I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst...carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me" (Life and Letters, Vol. I, p. 84). But invention should not cease with its first product; it should... | |
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The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly diversified places in the economy of nature. 
