...Lyell's Principles on Darwin was enormous. As Darwin himself put it in a letter to a colleague in 1844: The great merit of the Principles was that it altered the whole tone of one's mind, & therefore that, when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes'....

...published. Darwin corroborates this point of view. "The great merit of the Principles was," Darwin asserted, "that it altered the whole tone of one's mind, and...Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes." May 10, 1959 Useful Quotes from Emerson "The universe is full of echoes" [slightly paraphrased]. "Science...

...1958), p. 121. 8 Later CD claimed that he had never properly acknowledged his debt to Lyell, writing 'when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes'. Francis Darwin, Life and Letters (New York, 1888) vol. 2, p. 55; cited Jonathan Smith, 'Seeing Through...

...facts and drawing broad inferences from them, strongly influenced his subsequent thought. Darwin wrote, 'The great merit of the Principles was that it altered...Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.' Lyell did not initially accept Darwin's view of evolution, but later did so, prompting Darwin to comment,...

...as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain, and that I never acknowledge this sufficiently. . . the great merit of the Principles was that it altered...seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.11 Without Lyell, it could be said, there might not have been any Darwin: no intellectual insights,...

...thought that the great merit of the Principles,2 was that it altered the whole tone of one's mind & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes — it would have been in some respects better if I had done this less — but again excuse my long...