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...On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the ... ...On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin o... ... STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Th... ...LECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Porta... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Se... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Ji... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin ‘But with regard ... ...nnsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin ‘But with regard to the m... ...- tion, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin 4 On the Origin of Species Contents Introduction Chapter I ...

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...T HE VOY AGE OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the B... ...T HE VOY AGE OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by... ...arwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Thi... ...PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portab... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim ... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin PREFACE I have st... ...nnsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin PREFACE I have stated in ... ...me a taste for Natural History, —who, during my absence, took charge of 5 Charles Darwin the collections I sent home, and by his correspon- dence dir...

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...Dame. But you don‘t prove Aristotle by quoting Aristotle. You don‘t prove Darwin by quoting Darwin. But you in religion generally cite the Bible to ... ...he truth to be accepted. Just like the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin and Leakey—when the truth goes against one‘s deeply held beliefs, t... ...n‘t accept the genetic theories of Mendel or the evolutionary theories of Darwin because they didn‘t fit the political thinking of the government. S... ...ot an area where compromise is acceptable. EVOLUTION --―What about Charles Darwin‘s and Alfred Wallace‘s theory of evolution as history? Is i... ...ea where compromise is acceptable. EVOLUTION --―What about Charles Darwin‘s and Alfred Wallace‘s theory of evolution as history? Is it histor... .... ―Let us look at the beginnings of evolutionary thinking. Some of Darwin‘s ideas were around long before Darwin. People had bred horses and ... ...A letter to Alexander von Humboldt, dated December 6, 1813. 13. Letter to Charles Thompson, 1816 14. Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Ass... ...inst Religious Assessments, Section 7, 1785 15. John Adams in a letter to Charles Cushing, October 19, 1756 16. Treaty with Tripoli 17. Writings o...

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...tarian motives than have Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, Charles Taylor, Robert Mugabe, and Saddam Hussein.‖ —―Well said Comm... ...h the Bible.‖ —―But the Pope wouldn‘t offer a posthumous apology to Darwin like the Anglicans did.‖ —―What good would an apology do for... ...us only talking about those in his audience 2,000 years ago? If Galileo or Darwin, both of whom were Christians, convinced a friend of the truth of a...

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... day giggling and whispering with Jana and Gracie. Lisa and her boyfriend, Charles, held hands and talked about the wedding they would have one day. J... ...t’s so far to come.” Lisa had moved to British Columbia when she’d married Charles. Their only child, Charlie, was nearly fifteen, but Lacey had not s... ...hen turned off the computer. After lunch and a nap she phoned her lawyer. “Charles,” she said, without preamble. “I have cancer and I want to have the... ...ken aback by this announcement out of the blue, but recovering quickly, as Charles Masterson had been Lacey’s law- yer for years and had become adept ... ...l appeal courts. I’m not optimis- tic.” “Well, just get it started please, Charles. Time is of the essence.” She hung up. The next morning, Lacey resu... ...H-8047 Zurich, Switzerland; www.exit.ch {info@exit.ch} Exit International, Darwin, N.T., Australia (offices in Michi- gan, Washington State, U.S.A., a...

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...h is a great evil and a great insult to His Majesty.” The case of the Rev. Charles Voysey, which occurred in 1870, was a second assertion of the Churc... ... ologist indeed; he was a man almost of the rank and quality of Pasteur or Charles Darwin. A decade or more ago he wrote a book called “The Nature of ... ... indeed; he was a man almost of the rank and quality of Pasteur or Charles Darwin. A decade or more ago he wrote a book called “The Nature of Man,” in... ... to this most definite and interesting statement: “Writing as a hard-shell Darwinian evolutionist, a lover of the scalpel and microscope, and of patie... ...does not call too public an attention to one’s eccentricity. The late Rev. Charles Voysey, for example, preached plainly in his church at Healaugh aga...

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...d my mind to a far distant and a sadder scene—in T erra del Fuego—and with Darwin’s eyes I saw a naked great savage hurl his little boy against the ro... ...come me if they could: Livy, and Susy, and George, and Henry Robinson, and Charles Dudley Warner. How good and kind they were, and how lovable their l... ...nsidered a good writer. What Is Man and Other Essays 166 Sir Walter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists.... ...uld be chargeable with having forgotten any of his law while writing it.” Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke speak of “the marvelous intimacy which he di...

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...orked out the principles of Socialism pretty thoroughly, and we got up the Darwinian theory with the help of Britten’s medical-stu- dent brother and t... ...times, and we went through them with ear- nest industry and tried over our Darwinism in the light of that. Such topics we did exhaustively. But on the... ...mming for education. Why! I longed all through one winter to read a bit of Darwin. I must know about this Darwin if I die for it, I said. And I couldn... ... thrust himself, it may be, through the very piece of space that once held Charles the Martyr plead- ing for his life, seems horrible profanation to D... ...Circle. It included Bailey and Dayton and myself, Sir Herbert Thorns, Lord Charles Kindling, Minns the poet, Gerbault the big railway man, Lord Gane, ... ...character, scholars and gentlemen, men who can pretend quite honestly that Darwinism hasn’t upset the his- torical fall of man, that cricket is moral ...

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...aders of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas with any genius, both A... ...r-popu- lation, when the resources of even a tropical soil were taxed, and even the improvident Polynesian trembled for the fu- ture. We may accept so... ...ul, and uncanny, with a note like a sea-bird’s. Where there are no fashions, none to set them, few to follow them if they were set, and none to critic...

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..., 7th April, 1828, and returned to France, where he was warmly welcomed by Charles X. But at the same time, without knowing Dillon’s move- ments, Dumo... ...rmation, planted with magnificent cocos, and which had been visited by Mr. Darwin and Captain Fitzroy. The Nautilus skirted the shores of this desert ... ...acing it on that of an archduke to whom they prematurely gave the title of Charles III. “Spain must resist this coalition; but she was almost entirely...

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... in the Swiss mountains. The shirt they brought me was shorter than the drawers, and hadn’t any sleeves to it—at least it hadn’t anything more than wh... ...self as his theory. Instead of thanking me, he said that if I tried to fasten that theory on him he would sue me for slander. I was going to offer it ... ...r more overwhelmed with attentions, if he had com- mitted six murders and then—while the gallows was prepar- ing—”got religion”—after the manner of th...

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... of sound religion. It is still combating the recent heresies of Voltaire, Darwin, and Robert Ingersoll. Pious families in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin,... ...as sarcastic today. He begged of sporting young Mr. Charley Holmberg, “Now Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that ... ...ir Thomas Browne, Thoreau, Agnes Repplier, Arthur Symons, Claude Washburn, Charles Flandrau. He presented his idols diffidently, but he expanded in Ca... ...er Prairie: Mosher editions of the poets, black and red Ger- man novels, a Charles Lamb in crushed levant. Guy did not sit down. He quartered the offi... ...gest and the Outlook faithfully, while I’m turning over pages of a book by Charles Flandrau that I already know by heart.) “I decided to leave here. S... ... on the street, but he was merely a pleasant voice which said things about Charles Lamb and sunsets. Her most positive experience was the revelation o...

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...t Atlantic is; Not a fatter fish than he, Flounders round the Polar Sea.” —Charles Lamb’ s Triumph of the Whale. “In the year 1690 some persons were o... ...re” (Terra Del Fuego), “over which the beech tree extended its branches.” —Darwin’ s Voyage of a Naturalist. “‘Stern all!’ exclaimed the mate, as upon...

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... same place of humble honour. Of their wealth we know that in the reign of Charles I., Thomas Jenkin of Eythorne was more than once in the market buyi... ...e last complication was to be added by the Bishop of Chichester’s brother, Charles Buckner, Vice-Admiral of the White, who was twice mar- ried, first ... ... the line of the Jenkin family fell on the shoulders of the third brother, Charles. Facility and self-indulgence are the family marks; facility (to ju... ...arriages) being at once their quality and their defect; but in the case of Charles, a man of exceptional beauty and sweetness both of face and disposi... ...him in consequence the drudge and milk-cow of his relatives. Born in 1766, Charles served at sea in his youth, 7 Robert Louis Stevenson and smelt bot... ...l details were regulated. He had begun by this time to write. His paper on Darwin, which had the merit of convincing on one point the philosopher hims... ... to cheer the vanity of the most incompetent; but a correction accepted by Darwin, and a whole review borrowed and reprinted by Matthews Duncan are co...

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...ery sincere emotion that I write myself your little boy, Louis. Letter: TO CHARLES BAXTER DUNBLANE, FRIDAY, 5TH MARCH 1872 MY DEAR BAXTER, – By the da... ...d, R. L. STEVENSON. 17 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO CHARLES BAXTER DUNBLANE, TUESDAY, 9TH APRIL 1872 MY DEAR BAXTER, – I don’t ... ...TEVENSON (Rentier). 27 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO CHARLES BAXTER 17 HERIOT ROW, EDINBURGH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1873. MY DEAR ... ...rish grandeur with their sort of secretive baseness, after the manner of a Charles the Ninth. They are peopled for me with persons of the same fashion... ... on Burns in ten columns. Meantime, when I have done Burns, I shall finish Charles of Orleans (who is in a good way, about the fifth month, I should t... ... (in the abstract) than an atrabilious Shakespeare or a backbiting Kant or Darwin. No offence to any of these gentlemen, two of whom prob- ably (one f...

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...herefore, the abolition of war looked as unprosperous a speculation as Dr. Darwin’s scheme for improving our British climate by hauling out all the ic... ...pression of war. These efforts, one and all, spent their fire as vainly as Darwin spent his wrath against the icebergs: the icebergs are as big and as... ...vous system. In- deed, as to many features, the malady of the French king, Charles IX., whose nervous system had been shattered by the horrors of the ... ...he ‘burst asunder in the middle;’ and that ‘his one so youthful as that of Charles. In the Acts of the Apostles, again, the grandson of Herod (Herod A... ...says and Other Papers – V olume One 2. The Mahometan Decision.—The Emperor Charles V., at different periods, twice invaded the piratical states in the... ...ff next year; and, in one generation more, of passing for a great patriot. Charles Lamb complained that, by gradual changes, not on his part, but in t... ...Thomas de Quincey CASE CASE CASE CASE CASE VI. VI. VI. VI. VI. THE CASE OF CHARLES I. THE CASE OF CHARLES I. THE CASE OF CHARLES I. THE CASE OF CHARLE...

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...ARLETON. Nice? Not a bit of it. Venerable? V enerable be blowed! Read your Darwin, my boy. Read your Weismann. [He goes to the sideboard for a drink o... ...near his wife]. But if you want to understand old age scientifically, read Darwin and Weismann. Of course if you want to under- stand it romantically,... ...yness. Read Dickens. LORD SUMMERHAYS [surprised] Dickens!! Of all authors, Charles Dickens! Are you serious? TARLETON. I dont mean his books. Read his...

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...ltz, every Old Bailey barrister a Solon, every Seven Dials pigeon dealer a Darwin, every scrivener a Shakespear, every locomotive engine a miracle, an... ...ment. We have only to turn to Macaulay’s description of the treat- ment of Charles II in his last illness to see how strongly his physicians felt that... ...b- able. It may be as wounding to the personal vanity of the vivisector as Darwin’s Origin of Species was to the people who could not bear to think th...

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...t which visited Athens in the Peloponnesian war, or London in the reign of Charles II. There also the martyrs were counted by myriads, and the period ... ...e married for his first wife our English princess Henrietta, the sister of Charles II., (and through her daughter, by the way, it is that the house of... ...any others. Accordingly, everybody remem- bers the remarkable answer which Charles I. received at Ox- ford from this Virgilian oracle, about the openi... ...l worked concur- rently with senates or princes. Whereas in our days, says Charles Lamb, the witch who takes her pleasure with the moon, and summons B... ...ring and horror, and Nostradamus pursued the whole with ominous allusions. Charles IX., though the authorizer of the Bartholomew mas- sacre, was the l... ...repeatedly manifested itself to be a plain and direct bounty upon suicide. Darwin, in his ‘Zoonomia,’ reports a case where an officer, holding the ran... ...rld for him: better no life at all than a life dismantled of muffins.’—Dr. Darwin was a showy philosopher, and fond of producing effect, so that some ... ...; and, originally, it had been brought for- ward in a philosophic work, by Darwin, who had the repu- tation of an irreligious man, and even of an infi...

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... and electorates during my lifetime as sanitary science was in the days of Charles the Second. In international rela- tions diplomacy has been a boyis... ...f cobras and rattlesnakes in Kensington Gardens. In the prophetic works of Charles Dickens we were warned against many evils which have since come to ... ...entific doctrine which is associated with the name of the great naturalist Charles Darwin began, it was not only a reaction against a barbarous pseudo... ...doctrine which is associated with the name of the great naturalist Charles Darwin began, it was not only a reaction against a barbarous pseudo-evangel... ...ed from time to time. Heartbreak House Men who had just read the news that Charles Wyndham was dying, and were thereby sadly reminded of Pink Domi- no...

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...tellung. 15 H G Wells penetrating analysis of the evolutionary process by Darwin and his followers and successors and antagonists, the entire subordi... ... exchange the slow gigantic toil of that sluggish and deliber- ate person, Charles Darwin, for the tumultuous inconse- quence and (as some people thin... ...e the slow gigantic toil of that sluggish and deliber- ate person, Charles Darwin, for the tumultuous inconse- quence and (as some people think it) th... ...n- ishes the failure of living things to live fully and completely. As Mr. Charles Booth has pointed out in his Life and Labour of the People, it is p... ... of Boston, U.S.A., have sent me a book of Nursery Rhymes, arranged by Mr. Charles Welsh, which is certainly the best thing I have seen in this way. I... ...translations, quite perceptibly no greater mind than Lord Bacon, New- ton, Darwin, or Adam Smith, becomes god-like to all who pass beyond the Little-G...

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...lities just as the V oyage of a Naturalist Round the World reveals some of Darwin’s, with- 107 Caesar and Cleopatra out expressing his private person... ... At all events, Caesar might have won his battles without being wiser than Charles XII or Nelson or Joan of Arc, who were, like most modern “self-made...

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..., in a garret all his life; study women and live on their work and care as Darwin studied worms and lived upon sheep; work his nerves into rags withou... ...aphy altogether but for his usefulness as a stage confidant, a Horatio or “Charles his friend” what they call on the stage a feeder. Now you cannot sa... ... where, mistaking the Hall of Science for a chapel, she sat at the feet of Charles Bradlaugh for many years, entranced by his eloquence, without quest... ...rry him. Disprove his assertion af- ter it is made, yet its style remains. Darwin has no more destroyed the style of Job nor of Handel than Martin Lut...

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...s article could be written by Samuel Warren. And failing that, I wish that Charles Dickens, who wrote in his “American Notes” with such passionate dis... ...e greatly loves and admires his Card, as that Richardson ad- mired his Sir Charles Grandison, or that Mrs. Humphry Ward considers her Marcella a very ... ...s sports, nature’s weak moments, and it was only with the establishment of Darwin’s great generalisation that the hard and fast classificatory system ... ...? Is the scientific method of value in biology? The great advances made by Darwin and his school in biol- ogy were not made, it must be remembered, by... ...ence,” in current usage anyhow, ever means such patient disentanglement as Darwin pursued. It means the attainment of something posi- tive and emphati... ...omise, the Establishment, or you by his Socialism or by his Catholicism or Darwinism, or even by his erroneous choice of ties and collars. Boys who ar...

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... that our priest says. London is London, Sahib. Sydney is Sydney, and Port Darwin is Port Darwin. Also Mother Gunga is Mother Gunga, and when I come b... ...her Gerald Massey. When he has time for novels he reads Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade chiefly the latter—and knows whole pages of “V ery Hard Cash”... ... to me when we first met, because I did not ask questions, and believed in Charles Reade as a most shame- fully neglected author. Later he approved of... ...ver been stopped—” “I know! Since William the Conqueror came over, or King Charles hid in her smoke-stack. You’re as bad as the rest of these Britishe...

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...gy as in psy- chology. They are even to be found in plants, as Sir Francis Darwin pointed out (cf. Semon, “Die Mneme,” 2nd edition, p. 28 n.). Habit i... ...nied. “That all men are mortal,” “that Columbus discovered America,” “that Charles I died in his bed,” “that all philosophers are wise,” are propositi... ...I believe that Great Britain is an island, that whales are mam- mals, that Charles I was executed, and so on; and at first sight it seems obvious that... ...sition from actual active be- lief. We speak as if we always believed that Charles I was ex- ecuted, but that only means that we are always ready to b... ...nt disposition. Now, what are the occasions when, we actively believe that Charles I was executed? Primarily: examinations, when we perform the bodily... ...to buy a third-class ticket to my new realm. At the last moment I remember Charles I and all the other monarchs who have come to a bad end; I change m...

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... help admiring her, and you couldn’t help imi tating her; not even a King Charles spaniel could remain entirely despicable in her society. So, as you... ... had been cut down fifteen minutes sooner he might have been resuscitated. Charles Henry Twain lived during the latter part of the seventeenth century... ...t it came somewhat near to materializing. It is long ago—thirty years. Mr. Darwin’s Descent of Man has been in print five or six years, and the storm... ...odicals. In tracing the genesis of the human race back to its sources, Mr. Darwin had left Adam out altogether. We had mon keys, and “missing links,”...

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... story of an ape touches us quite differently after the proposition of Mr. Darwin’s theory. Moreover, there lay, perhaps, at the bot- tom of this prim... ...ister. And over against them was the army of the hierarchies, from the men Charles and James Stuart, on to King Lewie and the Emperor; and the scarlet...