...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 ...

Excerpt: On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

...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...

Excerpt: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

...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...

...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...

...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 ...

...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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...ast 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 on... ...ore” (Terra Del Fuego), “over which the beech tree extended its branches.” Darwin’s Voyage of a Naturalist. “‘Stern all!’ exclaimed the mate, as upon ...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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,”...

... 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...