...past geological epochs in its history. Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate...convinced that species are not immutable; but that diose belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally...

...past geological epochs in its history. Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgement of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists entertain, and which I formerly...

...to recur to extraordinary agents" [italics added].1 Darwin, too, rejected the idea of sudden change: "I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgement of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and...

...past geological epochs in its history. Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate...I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained — namely, that each species has been...

...the opening pages of The Origin: {253} Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgement of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists entertain, and which I formerly...

...Newtonian view of parsimony and universality: Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgement of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists entertain, and which I formerly...

...past geological epochs in its history, Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure. I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate...species has been independently created — is erroneous. Deliberate study and dispassionate judgment, thought Greer, Darwin, who after twenty years of meticulous...

...remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgement of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists...species has been independently created - is erroneous. In 1851, a young American journalist, Herman Melville, had published a book in England entitled simply,...

...those at which 1 have arrived. Although much remains obscure, 1 can entertain no doubt that the idea which I formerly entertained- namely, that each species...has been independently created- is erroneous. I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main, but not exclusive, means of modification. Chapter...

...died at 100 years of age in 2005. 47. Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate...I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained — namely, that each species has been...