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" The work, from its powerful and brilliant style, though displaying in the earlier editions little accurate knowledge and a great want of scientific caution, immediately had a very wide circulation. In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country... "
Evolution, Old and New: Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and ... - Page 248
by Samuel Butler - 1879 - 384 pages
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views. In 1846 the veteran geologist MJ d'Omalins d'Halloy published in an excellent, though short paper ('Bulletins...
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; or, The ...

Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the sublect, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views. In 1846 the veteran geologist MJ d'Omalins dTIalloy published in an excellent though short paper ('...
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On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, Or, the ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1883 - 494 pages
...In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the sublect, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogoutt views. In Ib46 the veteran geologist 11. J. d'Omalius d'HaUoy published in an excellent...
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Charles Darwin: A Paper Contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire ...

Edward Woodall - Naturalists - 1884 - 100 pages
...Darwin says — " It has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views." In the same year Count Keyserling and Dr Schaaffhausen, in different countries, argued in favour of...
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Robert Chambers, Alexander Ireland - Evolution - 1884 - 550 pages
...its later editions " it did excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views."* It is almost needless to say that the "Vestiges" was the outcome of many years of thought and earnest...
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 494 pages
...In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the sublect, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous Yiews. In lb4G the veteran geologist MJ d'Omalius d'Halloy published in an excellent though short paI>er...
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Charles Darwin

Grant Allen - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 238 pages
...my own opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views.' Still Darwin gave no sign. A flaccid, cartilaginous, unphilosophic evolutionism had full possession...
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 10

Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1887 - 482 pages
...In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views." When the ' Vestiges ' were disposed of, Chambers returned to Edinburgh and resumed the writing and...
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Men and Women

James Platt - Men - 1890 - 220 pages
...In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views." 1 first read the Vestiges of Creation about the year 1850, and opened a discussion in favour of it...
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Charles Darwin's Works: The origin of species by means of natural selection ...

Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 408 pages
...In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views. In 1846 the veteran geologist MJ d'Omalius d'Halloy published in an excellent though short paper ('...
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