 Highness, my Lords and Gentlemen, Trustees of the British Museum, in the name of the Darwin Memorial Committee, to request you to accept this statue of Charles Darwin. We do not make this request for the mere sake of perpetuating a memory; for so long...  Science - Page 12edited by - 1885Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 pages
...the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, requesting the trustees to accept the statue : — We do not make this request for the mere sake of perpetuating...assuredly, do we ask you to preserve the statue in ite cynosura position in this entrance hall of our National Museum of Natural History as evidence that... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 916 pages
...occupy themselves with the pursuit of truth, the name of Darwin runs no more risk of oblivion than docs that of Copernicus or that of Harvey. Nor, most assuredly,...received your official sanction ; for science does not recognise such sanctions, and commits suicide when it adopts a creed. No ; we beg you to cherish this... | |
 | Annie Besant - 1885 - 464 pages
...the Darwin Memorial from all parts of the world, Professor Huxley, in unveiling the statue, said: " It only remains for me, your Royal Highness, my Lords...preserve the statue in its cynosural position in this entrance hall of our National Museum of Natural History as evidence that Mr. Darwin's views have received... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 790 pages
...characteristic a likeness of one whom he had not seen. It appeared to the Committee that, whether they regarded Mr. Darwin's career or the requirements of...received your official sanction ; for science does not recognise such sanctions, and commits suicide when it adopts a creed. No ; we beg you to cherish this... | |
 | George Washburn Smalley - 1891 - 492 pages
...Nature have been completely changed." Then upon the uncovering of the statue came these words : — It only remains for me, your Royal Highness, my Lords...preserve the statue in its cynosural position in this entrance hall of our National Museum of Natural History, as evidence that Mr. Darwin's views have received... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 504 pages
...verycharacteristic a likeness of one whom he had not seen. It appeared to the Committee that, whether they regarded Mr. Darwin's career or the requirements of...received your official sanction ; for science does not recognise such sanctions, and commits suicide when it adopts a creed. No ; we beg you to cherish this... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 590 pages
...concluding words of the speech deserve quotation : — We do not make this request [ie to accept the statue] for the mere sake of perpetuating a memory; for so...preserve the statue in its cynosural position in this entrance hall of our National Museum of Natural History as evidence that Mr. Darwin's views have received... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 584 pages
...concluding words of the speech deserve quotation : — We do not make this request [ie to accept the statue] for the mere sake of perpetuating a memory; for so...preserve the statue in its cynosural position in this entrance hall of our National Museum of Natural History as evidence that Mr. Darwin's views have received... | |
 | James Richard Ainsworth Davis - 1907 - 320 pages
...unveiling Darwin's statue runs thus : — " We do not make this request p.*., acceptance of the statue] for the mere sake of perpetuating a memory ; for so...preserve the statue in its cynosural position in this entrance hall of our National Museum of Natural History as evidence that Mr. Darwin's views have received... | |
 | 1909 - 812 pages
...statue at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, requesting the trustees to accept the statue : We do not make this request for the mere sake of perpetuating...preserve the statue in its cynosural position in this entrance hall of our National Museum of Natural History as evidence that Mr. Darwin's views have received... | |
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