The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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... Darwin's name appears . Mr. Romanes had gone but a little distance along the road on which he was destined to travel very far . He had up to this time read none of Mr. Darwin's books , and to a question on Natural Selection which ...
... Darwin's name appears . Mr. Romanes had gone but a little distance along the road on which he was destined to travel very far . He had up to this time read none of Mr. Darwin's books , and to a question on Natural Selection which ...
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... Darwin's books , and it is impossible to over- rate the extraordinary effect they had on the young man's mind . Something of the feeling which Keats describes in the sonnet On Looking into Chapman's Homer ' seems to have been his ...
... Darwin's books , and it is impossible to over- rate the extraordinary effect they had on the young man's mind . Something of the feeling which Keats describes in the sonnet On Looking into Chapman's Homer ' seems to have been his ...
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... Darwin's attention , and caused him to send a friendly little note to the youthful writer . Probably Mr. Darwin had little idea of the effect his letter produced on its recipient , who was then recovering from his long illness . That Darwin ...
... Darwin's attention , and caused him to send a friendly little note to the youthful writer . Probably Mr. Darwin had little idea of the effect his letter produced on its recipient , who was then recovering from his long illness . That Darwin ...
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... Darwin , Dr. Sanderson was the scientific friend George Romanes most valued and loved , although it is impossible to ... Darwin's notice , and somewhere about 1874 he invited Mr. Romanes to call on him . From that time began an unbroken ...
... Darwin , Dr. Sanderson was the scientific friend George Romanes most valued and loved , although it is impossible to ... Darwin's notice , and somewhere about 1874 he invited Mr. Romanes to call on him . From that time began an unbroken ...
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... Darwin , and in this he has poured out his ' hero - worship ' in terms which were to him the expressions of simple truth . It is interesting to look over the long series of letters from 1874 to 1882 and notice how the formal ' Dear Mr ...
... Darwin , and in this he has poured out his ' hero - worship ' in terms which were to him the expressions of simple truth . It is interesting to look over the long series of letters from 1874 to 1882 and notice how the formal ' Dear Mr ...
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