 | Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1882 - 426 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 note's ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1883 - 494 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...have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that 1 may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been... | |
 | Louis Compton Miall - 1883 - 72 pages
...'Malthus on Population,' the idea of natural selection flashed on me. . . . After five years' work, I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew...to me probable; from that period to the present day (1859) I have steadily pursued the same object. . . . Mr. Wallace, who is now studying the natural... | |
 | Edward Woodall - Naturalists - 1884 - 100 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...to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object.1 From these words we learn a. good deal of Darwin s method of work ; his patience, his industry,... | |
 | Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - Evolution - 1884 - 266 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...to me probable. From that period to the present day [1859] I have steadily pursued the same object."1 And the last sentence above quoted was as true at... | |
 | Religion - 1882 - 896 pages
...'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...me probable ; from that period to " the present day (1859) I have steadily pursued the same" object." But while keeping this continually before his mind,... | |
 | Joseph Young Bergen - Evolution - 1884 - 268 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...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... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Evolution - 1887 - 224 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...have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I maybe excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Evolution - 1887 - 232 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...the conclusions, which then' seemed to me probable r from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be... | |
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... of our greatest philosophers. 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... 
