Identifier: cyclopaediaengli03cham (find matches)
Title: Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 Patrick, David, 1849-1914
Subjects: English literature Authors, English English literature
Publisher: London : W. & R. Chambers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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es,which he justly called the chief work of my life.Its complete title was On the Origin of Species byMeans of Natural Selection, or the Preservationof Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Thisgreat work was followed by the now familiar series :The Fertilisation of Orchids (1862), Tlie Varia-tion of Plants and Animals under Domestication(1868), The Descent of Man and Selection in131 Relation to Sex (1871), The Expression of theEmotions in Man and Animals (1872), Insectivor-ous Plants (1875), Climbing Plants (1875), ^^■^Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in theVegetable Kitigdotn (1876), Different Forms ofFlowers in Plants of the same Species (1877), ThePower of Movement in Plants (1880), and TheFormation of Vegetable Mould through the Actionof Worms (1881). Darwin died suddenly, after abrief cardiac illness, on 19th April 1882. He wasburied in Westminster Abbey, a few feet from thegrave of another light-bringer, vSir Isaac Newton.To those who realise at all how much Darwins
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CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN. From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry. great life has meant to mankind, there is a sublimepathos in the simple words of retrospect which heappended to his autobiography : As for myself, Ibelieve I have acted rightly in steadily followingand devoting my life to science. I feel no remorsefrom having committed any great sin, but haveoften and often regretted that I have not donemore direct good to my fellow-creatures. If one dare try to sum up the chief serviceswhich Darwin rendered to human thought, it seemsthat they were fourfold, (a) By his scrupulous!)-careful, thorough, and fair-minded marshalling ofthe evidences which suggest the doctrine ofdescent—the evolutionist interpretation or modalformula of the Becoming of the organic world—hegradually won the conviction of the great majorityof thoughtful men. Aided by Spencer and Wallace,Huxley and Haeckel, he made an old and some-what discredited suggestion current intellectual 4i8 Charles Robert Darwin coin. I

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