哈佛经典HarvardClassics：物种起源论 - (EPUB全文下载)

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
AN HISTORICAL SKETCH
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION
CHAPTER II VARIATION UNDER NATURE
CHAPTER III STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE
CHAPTER IV NATURAL SELECTION； OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
CHAPTER V LAWS OF VARIATION
CHAPTER VI DIFFICULTIES OF THE THEORY
CHAPTER VII MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTIONS TO THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION
CHAPTER VIII INSTINCT
CHAPTER IX HYBRIDISM
CHAPTER X ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD
CHAPTER XI ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS
CHAPTER XII GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
CHAPTER XIII GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION—continued
CHAPTER XIV MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS
CHAPTER XV RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION
GLOSSARY
“But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this—we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws.”
WHEWELL: Bridgewater Treatise.
“The only distinct meaning of the word ‘natural’ is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e., to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for one.”
BUTLER: Analogy of Revealed Religion.
“To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both.”
BACON: Advancement of Learning.
  Down, Beckenham, Kent,
      First Edition, November 24th, 1859.
      Sixth Edition, January, 1872.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN, born at Shrewsbury, England, on February 12, 1809, came of a family of remarkable intellectual distinction which is still sustained in the present generation. His father was a successful physician with remarkable powers of observation, and his grandfather was Erasmus Darwin, the well-known author of “The Botanic Garden.” He went to school at Shrewsbury, were he failed to profit from the strict classical curriculum there in force; nor did the regular professional courses at Edinburgh University, where he spent two years studying medicine, succeed in rousing his interest. In 1827 he was entered at Christ's College, Cambridge, to study for the B. A. degree, preparatory to entering t ............

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