...distribution of local inhabitants, their relations to past inhabitants — had started Charles Darwin "patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts...facts which could possibly have any bearing on it": result, the origin of Origin of Species (1). While Darwin had ranged widely, Thoreau used the centering...

...of species - that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out of this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly...

...of species - that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that...accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could posssibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject,...

...has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1 837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question...five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject.32 Darwin always retained that one can only observe through the lens of a theory.33 Darwin...

...inductivist. We can read, for example, in The Origin of Species (1859) that his method consisted of 'patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts...facts which could possibly have any bearing on it'. In his Autobiography (1887: 119)) he says explicitly: 'I worked on true Baconian principles, and without...

...inductivist. We can read, for example, in The Origin of Species (1859) that his method consisted of 'patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts...facts which could possibly have any bearing on it'. In his Autobiography (1887: 119)) he says explicitly: '1 worked on true Baconian principles, and without...

...it occurred to me that something might perhaps be made out of this question [the origin of species] by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have a bearing on it. After five years' of work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up...

...of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophera. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that...possibly have any bearing on it After five years' work 1 allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844...

...of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that...possibly have any bearing on it. After five years of work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged...

...seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species . . . On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that...of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it.14 Having described how he observed the facts empirically and saw some kind of relationship between...