 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1912 - 690 pages
...Beagle as naturalist. I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent." s Seeing that these words form the first sentence of the introduction to the " Origin... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1881 - 770 pages
...Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants ofthat continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw... | |
 | American literature - 1883 - 990 pages
...classes of facts here referred to seemed to him "to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers"; and he tells us that, soon after his return home in 1837, it occurred to him "that something might... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1872 - 382 pages
...quite differently. Mr. Darwin begins : — " When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...INTRODUCTION. WHEN on board HMS 'Bcaglo,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in tho distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South...relations of the present to the past inhabitants of th.it continent. These facts, as will be seen in tho latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - Evolution (Biology) - 1877 - 56 pages
...bray and the other to cackle, even like some " men of science.'' I believe that I can clear up the " mystery of mysteries." as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers, the origin of species, although " I have found to my cost a constant tendency to fill up gaps of knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1880 - 338 pages
...'Beagle' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1881 - 656 pages
...Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of...volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species ; that mystery of mysteries, as it has been termed by one of our greatest philosophers. On... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Religion and science - 1881 - 366 pages
...biographical references at the outset, — " When on board HMS ' Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called... | |
 | 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
...of Species by Means of Natural Selection ' — that when on board the ' Beagle ' he was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...past inhabitants of that continent. 'These facts,' he says, 'seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it... | |
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These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. 
