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" In regard to the origination of new species, I am very glad to find that you think it probable that it may be carried on through the intervention of intermediate causes. I left this rather to be inferred, not thinking it worth while to offend a certain... "
Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart - Page 467
by Sir Charles Lyell - 1881 - 489 pages
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Nature, Volume 25

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 850 pages
...«ven at that early date thought deeply on the question of the origin of species by natural causes. "In regard to the origination of new species, I am...on through the intervention of intermediate causes. 1 left this rather to be inferred, not thinking it worth while to offend a certain class of persons...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 20

1882 - 904 pages
...the rate of change in nature everywhere. A little later, in 1836, he writes to Sir John Herschel : In regard to the origination of new species, I am...on through the intervention of intermediate causes. . . . An insect may be made in one of its transformations to resemble a dead stick, or a leaf, or a...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 153

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 pages
...seeking for some mode of surmounting this difficulty. As early as 1836 he writes to Sir John Herschel : 'In regard to the origination of new species, I am very glad to find that you think it may be carried on through the intervention of intermediate causes. I left this rather to be inferred,...
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Nature, Volume 25

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 646 pages
...even at that early date thought deeply on the question of the origin of species by natural causes. " In regard to the origination of new species, I am very glad to rind that you think it probable that it may be carried on through the intervention of intermediate...
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Charles Darwin

Grant Allen - 1885 - 246 pages
...Herschel in 1836, while Darwin was still but homeward bound on the voyage of the ' Beagle ' : — ' In regard to the origination of new species, I am...on through the intervention of intermediate causes. . . . An insect may be made in one of its transformations to resemble a dead stick, or a leaf, or a...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - 1887 - 586 pages
...remarkable passage occurs in the postscript of a letter addressed to Sir John Herschel in 1836:— " In regard to the origination of new species, I am...embodying in words what would only be a speculation." * He goes on to refer to the criticisms which have been directed against him on the ground that, by...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...remarkable passage occurs in the postscript of a letter addressed to Sir John Herschel in 1836 :— a In regard to the origination of new species, I am...embodying in words what would only be a speculation." * He goes on to refer to the criticisms which have been directed against him on the ground that, by...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 pages
...remarkable passage occurs in the postscript of a letter addressed to Sir John Herschel in 1836 :— " In regard to the origination of new species, I am...embodying in words what would only be a speculation." * He goes on to refer to the criticisms which have been directed against him on the ground that, by...
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Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler, L.L.D.

William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...remarkable passage occurs in the postscript of a letter addressed to Sir John Herschel in 1836 :— " In regard to the origination of new species, I am...embodying in words what would only be a speculation." * He goes on to refer to the criticisms which have been directed against him on the ground that, by...
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Charles Lyell and Modern Geology

Thomas George Bonney - 1895 - 236 pages
...care. " In regard to the origination of new species, I am very glad to find that you think it probable it may be carried on through the intervention of intermediate...class of persons by embodying in words what would * The weakness of his eyes was always more or less of a trouble. only be a speculation .... When I...
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