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474 TROPICAL NATUREendeavoured, however imperfectly, to enable non- specialiststo judge of the character and extent of this work, and of thevast revolution it has effected in our conception of nature,a revolution altogether independent of the question whetherthe theory of " natural selection " is or is not as important afactor in bringing about changes of animal and vegetableforms as its author maintained. Let us consider for amoment the state of mind induced by the new theory andthat which precededit. So long as men believed that everyspecies was the immediate handiwork of the Creator, and wastherefore absolutely perfect, they remained altogether blindto the meaning of the countless variations and adaptations ofthe parts and organs of plants and animals. They who werealways repeating, parrot-like, that every organism was exactlyadapted to its conditions and surroundings by an all -wisebeing, were apparently dulled or incapacitated by this belieffrom any inquiry into the inner meaning of what they sawaround them, and were content to pass over whole classes offacts as inexplicable, and to ignore countless details of structureunder vague notions of a " general plan," or of variety andbeauty being " ends in themselves " while he whose;teachingswere at first stigmatised as degrading or even atheistical, bydevoting to the varied phenomena of living things the loving,patient, and reverent study of one who really had faith in thebeauty and harmony and perfection of creation, was enabledto bring to light innumerable hidden adaptations, and to provethat the most insignificant parts of the meanest living thingshad a use and a purpose, were worthy of our earnest study,and fitted to excite our highest and most intelligent admiration.That he has done this is the sufficient answer to his criticsand to his few detractors. However much our knowledge ofnature may advance in the future, it will certainly be byfollowing in the pathways he has made clear for us and for;long years to come the name of Darwin will stand for thetypical example of what the student of nature ought to be.And if we glance back over the whole domain of science, weshall find none to stand beside him as equals ;for in him wefind a patient observation and collection of facts, as in TychoBrahe the ; power of using those facts in the determination oflaws, as in Kepler, combined with the inspirational genius of a
ix THE DEBT OF SCIENCE TO DARWIN 475Newton, through which he was enabled to grasp fundamentalprinciples, and so apply them as to bring order out of chaos,and illuminate the world of life as Newton illuminated thematerial universe. Paraphrasing the eulogistic words of thepoet, we may say, with perhaps a greater approximation totruth" Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night;God said,'Let Darwin be,' and all was light."
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NATURAL SELECTION. First Edition 18
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PREFACEALTERATIONS IN THE SECOND ED
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CONTENTSof Protective Colouring Obj
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CONTENTSTEOPICAL NATURE AND OTHER E
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CONTENTSof Flowers and their Geogra
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ON THE LAW WHICH HAS REGULATED THE
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vi A THEORY OF BIRDS' NESTS 119Chan
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A THEORY OF BIRDS' NESTSnatural phe
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vi A THEORY OF BIRDS' NESTS 131most
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vi A THEORY OF BIRDS' NESTS 133Real
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vi A THEORY OF BIRDS' NESTS 135form
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vi A THEORY OF BIRDS' NESTS 137of c
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vi A THEORY OF BIRDS' NESTS 139ence
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VIICREATION BY LAW 1AMONG the vario
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vii CREATION BY LAW 143the whole or
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CREATION BY LAW 145occur to him as
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CREATION BY LAW 147inches, and was
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vii CREATION BY LAW 149the growth o
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vii CREATION BY LAW 161navigable ri
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vii CREATION BY LAW 153sifted, and
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CREATION BY LAW 155ments of beauty
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CREATION BY LAW 157met with. On thi
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CREATION BY LAW 159determined at th
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vii CREATION BY LAW 161cannot be fu
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CREATION BY LAW 163into a gull with
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CREATION BY LAW 165the Eocene Anopl
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VIIITHE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RACESN
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RACES 173D
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ix LIMITS OF NATURAL SELECTION IN M
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LIMITS OF NATURAL SELECTION IN MAN
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TROPICAL NATURE AND OTHER ESSAYS
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218 TROPICAL NATUREThe Three Climat
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TROPICAL NATURE
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222 TROPICAL NATUREproduces any bur
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224 TROPICAL NATUREof humidity, as
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TROPICAL NATUREIn the north tempera
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228 TROPICAL NATUREslight fall of t
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TROPICAL NATUREclimate of the equat
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TROPICAL NATUREpermanent springs to
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234 TROPICAL NATUREand a beauty tha
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236 TROPICAL NATUREheat increased h
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IIEQUATORIAL VEGETATIONThe Equatori
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240 TROPICAL NATUREforest-belts in
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I242 TROPICAL NATURE nposed to thin
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244 TROPICAL NATUREand fillsurround
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246 TROPICAL NATUREmight have been
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248 TROPICAL NATUREBesides these va
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250 TROPICAL NATURE nover shrubs an
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252 TROPICAL NATUREoil from the coc
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254 TROPICAL NATUREand handsome flo
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256 TROPICAL NATUREof palms or of t
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258 TROPICAL NATUREzigzag, branched
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TROPICAL NATUREPalembang, in Sumatr
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264 TROPICAL NATUREperate and frigi
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266 TROPICAL NATUREleaves standing
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TROPICAL NATUREregions of polar col
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IllANIMAL LIFE IN THE TROPICAL FORE
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272 TROPICAL NATUREin books of trav
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276 TROPICAL NATUREsettle upon foli
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278 TROPICAL NATUREsome day be valu
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TROPICAL NATUREespecially of Zingib
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TROPICAL NATUREof rare butterflies
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TROPICAL NATUREare always accompani
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286 TROPICAL NATUREcutting ant in A
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290 TROPICAL NATUREmost conspicuous
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292 TROPICAL NATUREtion of very lar
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294 TROPICAL NATUREinto light or de
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TROPICAL NATUREcurious interactions
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298 TROPICAL NATUREthan are exhibit
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TROPICAL NATUEEthologists, it will
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TROPICAL NATURELizardsLizards are b
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TROPICAL NATUREMAMMALIAMonkeysThe h
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314 TROPICAL NATUREover the lower a
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316 TROPICAL NATUREhumming-birds ma
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318 TROPICAL NATUREsweets, in all t
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TROPICAL NATUREDisplay of Ornaments
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TROPICAL NATUREallied species on Ch
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340 TROPICAL NATUREand emotions may
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342 TROPICAL NATUREIt is true that
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346 TROPICAL NATUREThis caterpillar
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348 TROPICAL NATUREweed of these tw
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350 TROPICAL NATUREflies, so that i
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352 TROPICAL NATUREThe universal av
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354 TROPICAL NATUREMr. Darwin's Des
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356 TROPICAL NATUREexternal objects
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358 TROPICAL NATUREand Mr. Sorby ha
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378 TROPICAL NATURENatural Selectio
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386 TROPICAL NATURE vmetallic colou
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388 TROPICAL NATUREThe Andaman isla
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396 TROPICAL NATUREthese differ gre
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406 TROPICAL NATUREThe seeds of a p
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410 TROPICAL NATUREON THE ORIGINOF
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VIIIndications of Man's Extreme Ant
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