Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dickens, Thackeray and Jane Austen. The power of observation is the pre-eminent characteristic of them all. Sympathy and enthusiasm accompany all close observation and genius may be described as the labour of untiring observation. Nor is this power great in works of fiction only. In science Agassiz and Darwin were peculiarly gifted in this direction...
...Coral Islands of the Pacific demand the subsidence which Darwin supposed took place? (Darwin: The structure and distribution of Coral reefs. Geological Society Journal XII, 1842, third edition; John Murray: Structure, origin and distribution of coral reefs and islands 1888, 8 mo. 12 pp. Royal Institute of Great Britain...
...away from the old idea of classification and adopt a more natural one. His clearly written books show him again as a lover of the natural. Besides being a botanist, Dr. Gray was a great thinker. He worked out the philosophy of the origin of the species even before Darwin, and Darwin called him "the first of any American in the development of his judicial sense...
...foot and a half in length. It fragrance is very powerful and is peculiarly so at night. It was discovered in Madagascar about seventy years ago, but, until 1857, it was not introduced in this country. It is especially famous as one of the orchids in which Darwin was greatly interested on account of its unusually long spur. The plant now in bloom is a very good specimen, having four spikes of flowers with three blossoms on each spike...
Between 1815 and 1835 there was a great deepening of interest in the study of history. Darwin's great achievement was the spreading of the historical idea far beyond the limits of humanity. His "Origin of Species" (1859) was not the first exponent of the evolution but only one grand application of it; bringing to a focus tendencies of modern thought...