 | Literature - 1901 - 484 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... | |
 | James Orton, Charles Wright Dodge - Zoology - 1903 - 550 pages
...British exploring ship Beagle on a five years' cruise (1832-1837) around the world, and "was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...present to the past inhabitants of that continent." After his return home, twenty additional years were spent in collecting facts, making further observations... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - Great Britain - 1904 - 1038 pages
...beginning of the " Origin." 1865) " When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist," he says, " I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations ot the present to the past inhabitants of that continent." There was a similarity of type, he noticed,... | |
 | David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg - Evolution - 1907 - 526 pages
...ajouter dans les memes localit-es, et les memes circonstances cxtcrieures." — RAMBUR, 1842. "THAT mystery of mysteries as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers " — this is Darwin's phrase regarding the problem before us, the origin of species — the origin... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 584 pages
...edition on January 7th, 1860. INTRODUCTION 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 - Evolution - 1909 - 310 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...to the past inhabitants of that continent." These words, occurring where they do, can only mean one thing, — namely that the facts suggested an evolutionary... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1909 - 548 pages
...observations during the voyage of HMS Beagle of ' certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of...present to the past inhabitants of that continent.' There is no evidence to shew that he had made himself acquainted with the views of previous advocates... | |
 | Pan American Union - America - 1935 - 1118 pages
...two, Darwin began his very first paragraph: "When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, T was struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...present to the past inhabitants of that continent. . . . On my return home it occurred to me . . . that sometliing might perhaps be made out on this question... | |
 | Frank Herbert Hayward - Psychology - 1917 - 284 pages
...the earlier stages in Darwin's case : — "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the Continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw... | |
 | Edgar James Swift - Psychology, Applied - 1919 - 408 pages
...board HMS Beagle as naturalist," he says,1 "I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the...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... | |
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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. 
