My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 359
... Darwin's proposed work nor of the definite conclusions he had arrived at , nor had I myself any expectation of a complete solution of the great problem to which my paper was merely the prelude . Yet less than two months later that ...
... Darwin's proposed work nor of the definite conclusions he had arrived at , nor had I myself any expectation of a complete solution of the great problem to which my paper was merely the prelude . Yet less than two months later that ...
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A Record of Events and Opinions Alfred Russel Wallace. description , and if neither Darwin nor myself had hit upon " Natural Selection , " I might have spent the best years of my life in this comparatively profitless work . But the new ...
A Record of Events and Opinions Alfred Russel Wallace. description , and if neither Darwin nor myself had hit upon " Natural Selection , " I might have spent the best years of my life in this comparatively profitless work . But the new ...
Page 361
... Darwin had arrived at twenty years before , and which occurred to me at this time , answers all these questions and solves all these difficulties , and it is because it does so , and also because it is in itself self - evident and ...
... Darwin had arrived at twenty years before , and which occurred to me at this time , answers all these questions and solves all these difficulties , and it is because it does so , and also because it is in itself self - evident and ...
Page 363
... Darwin by the next post , which would leave in a day or two . I wrote a letter to him in which I said that I hoped the idea would be as new to him as it was to me , and that it would supply the missing factor to explain the origin of ...
... Darwin by the next post , which would leave in a day or two . I wrote a letter to him in which I said that I hoped the idea would be as new to him as it was to me , and that it would supply the missing factor to explain the origin of ...
Page 365
... Darwin , and in a letter home I thus refer to it : “ I have received letters from Mr. Darwin and Dr. Hooker , two of the most eminent naturalists in England , which have highly gratified me . I sent Mr. Darwin an essay on a subject upon ...
... Darwin , and in a letter home I thus refer to it : “ I have received letters from Mr. Darwin and Dr. Hooker , two of the most eminent naturalists in England , which have highly gratified me . I sent Mr. Darwin an essay on a subject upon ...
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