MEN AND MATTERS: The Darwin Centenary
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... distance of five miles, in which he turned and circled in the air with the greatest ease. An exhibition of memorials of Charles Darwin, to commemorate the centenary of his birth and the fiftieth anniversary of the pub lication of The Origin of Species ...
... dignified refusal by the Allies, and of the Kaiser's characteristically insolent anger thereanent, we naturally recall Charles Darwin, for the Germans, always stronger in mimicry than in initiative, have annexed (and perverted) much of his biological teaching ...
... practising medicine at Brussels. The book which most profoundly changed human thought in our time was a doctor's by degree, Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. More strictly doctoral, meaning about personal health m body, mind and soul, were the writings of ...
... WOOD-CUTTING: POPLARS IN FRANCE This cut, from Modern Wood-cutters, was made by Gwendolen Raverat, who is a granddaughter of Charles Darwin. the author of The Origin of Species. ...
... most likely letters from the mountain they make, because almost every Victoria epistle was kept. Have you noticed that Charles Darwin's old house beside the village of Downe, in Kent, is for sale Somebody might well think of buying it for the nation, because ...
... Captain Cook's Voyages. Eothen, by A. W. Kinglake. The Bible in Spain, by George Borrow. A Naturalist's Voyage, by Charles Darwin. Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard H. Dana. The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman. The Innocents Abroad, by Mark ...
... H. Lewes. Thomas Carlyle, Douglas Jerrold, Leigh Hunt, William Makepeace Thackeray, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens were all correspondents of Lewes. When he died George Eliot got letters from ever so many eminent ...