 On my return home, it occurred to me — in 1837 — that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed...  A Primer of Darwinism and Organic Evolution - Page 229by Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - 1890 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1880 - 338 pages
...1837, that something might be made out on this question by patiently accumlating and reflecting upon all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing...me probable : from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal... | |
 | Education - 1921 - 744 pages
...could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on this subject and drew up some short notes. These I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, when they seemed to be probable; from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Religion and science - 1881 - 366 pages
...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...to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object." * Such is Mr. Darwin's opening paragraph in the now celebrated... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1881 - 656 pages
...which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate upon the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these...me probable ; from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be ' See Zoologist for November, 1880. excused... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Religion and science - 1881 - 366 pages
...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...to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object." * Such is Mr. Darwin's opening paragraph in the now celebrated... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1882 - 426 pages
...After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short note's ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions...me probable : from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1882 - 634 pages
...years' work, he allowed himself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these he enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to him probable : and ' from that period,' he adds, ' to the present day, I have steadily pursued the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1883 - 494 pages
...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...me probable : from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that 1 may be excused for entering on these personal... | |
 | Joseph Young Bergen - Evolution - 1884 - 268 pages
...acceptance, for it, from every man of science. For on this date two papers were read before the Linnaean Society of London, which were to work a revolution...into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to m« probable. From that period to the present day [1859] 1 have steadily pursued the same object."1... | |
 | Edward Woodall - Naturalists - 1884 - 100 pages
...Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle, Vol. II., pp. 18, 19. of our greatest~philosophers. On my return home it occurred to me, in 1837, that...me probable ; from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object.1 From these words we learn a. good deal of Darwin s method... | |
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