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...rwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin ‘But with regard to the material world, we can at... ...ment of Learning. Down, Bromley, Kent, October 1st, 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selec- tion, or the Preservation of Favoured Ra... ...ured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin 4 On the Origin of Species Contents Introduction Chapter I Variation under Domestication Cause... ... Domes- tic Varieties — Difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species — Origin of Domestic Variet- ies from one or more Species — Domesti... ... II Variation under Nature Variability — Individual Differences — Doubtful species — Wide ranging, much diffused, and com- mon species vary most — Spe... ...ry most — Species of the larger gen- era in any country vary more than the species of the smaller genera — Many of the species of the larger genera re... ...truggle for life most severe between individuals and varieties of the same species; often severe between species of the same genus — The relation of o...

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...repared for a luxurious night’s rest. Here, contrary to the custom of this species of tale, we leave the General in possession of his apartment until ... ... the neck and shoulders, which fall down to the ground, and terminate in a species of train. “I thought the intrusion singular enough, but never harbo... ... the frontiers every dale had its battle, and every river its song. A rude species of chivalry was in con- stant use, and single combats were practise... ...tish Border, and others are mentioned in contempo- rary chronicles. At the species of singular combat which we have described the Laird’s Jock was unr...

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...stion of a good din- ner. We like at such moments to remain in quietude, a species of middle ground between the reverie of a thinker and the comfort o... ...which the gentle manners and loyalty of the provinces are transmitted as a species of birthright. Attracted to the theatre of war before the date at w... ...s plan was accompanied by such apparent good luck that he fancied he saw a species of predestination in this favor bestowed upon him by fate. He opene... ...hough he were dead. A very hot bath was all that saved him.” “It must be a species of lockjaw,” said one of the guests. “I don’t know,” she answered. ... ... shall I do? For Heaven’s sake, give me some advice!” The honest man, that species of puritan not unlike the father of Jeannie Deans, of whom I have a...

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...rocodile? The Provencal was not sufficiently educated to know un- der what species his enemy ought to be classed; but his fright was all the greater, ... ... form of rosettes, which distinguish the pan- ther from every other feline species. This tranquil and formidable hostess snored in an attitude as grac...

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...of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. Shaking in every limb, I groped my way... ...y changed during slumber. I now lay upon my back, and at full length, on a species of low framework of wood. To this I was securely bound by a long st...

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... strength, make myself humbly small, cringe like the hapless female of all species, that you may lift me up? and then, when I, helpless and broken, as... ...e tapestried arm- chair near the stove, before a table, with his feet in a species of muff, Monsieur Becker was reading a folio volume which was propp... ...od a jug of beer and a glass, at his right burned a smoky lamp fed by some species of fish-oil. The pastor seemed about sixty years of age. His face b... ...g himself into a chair between the two tables and was contemplating with a species of intoxication this picture full of harmony, to which the clouds o... ...otion, the breath incomprehensible of the sovereign Maker of the universe. Species are too distinctly separated for the human hand to mingle them. The... ...at did you see?” asked Wilfrid, astonished at this sud- den change. “I saw Species and Shapes; I heard the Spirit of all things; I beheld the revolt o... ... At last she conquered; Desire—let loose upon her in every Shape and every Species—was vanquished. She stood in prayer, and when at last her eyes were... ...an intuition of that God who seems so insoluble a problem is obtained? The species which are beneath you have no conception of the universe, and you h... ...no conception of the universe, and you have; why should there not be other species above you more intelligent than your own? Man ought to be better in...

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...ould go to a man of science and say: ‘I want an individual of the bimanous species, able to live in holes full of old boots, pestiferous with rags, an... ...ho go into business, with extreme elegance, which many of them regard as a species of prospectus. “I’ve come for some money,” said Bixiou, laughing, a... ... like some machine the movement of which is about to run down. The body, a species of broom-handle decently cov- ered with clothes, enjoyed the advant... ...iness, the dim light rasped the nerves. When the Southerner, impelled by a species of self-assertion, gazed firmly at the toad, he felt a sort of emet... ...g on politically.” Masson gave a glance at Gazonal, more eloquent than any species of question. “Oh! you can speak out, that’s my cousin; in a way he ...

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...r dis- likes; but she was capable of expressing esteem or con- tempt for a species. She had her own ways, I suppose, of manifesting her approval, but ... ...s. Church, in a tone which suggested that this might be a very superficial species of culture. “She has made what we call de fortes etudes— such as I ... ...lf in the smallest degree in accordance with these indices, you discover a species of Methodist—of what do you call it?—of Quakeress. On the other han...

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...her a sort of intermediary creature between the indi- viduals of the human species and those of the canine species; he was classed in her heart next, ... ...t, for being somewhere else than where they are, which distinguishes their species,—and also that of all beings devoid of sensitiveness, and those who... ...worthy of the Council of T en, and were, 48 The Vicar of Tours in fact, a species of police, armed with the unerring gift of spying bestowed by passi...

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... the spectacle before him. On each side of the door was a face framed in a species of loophole. At first he took these two faces for grotesque masks c... ...clamation, the old man covered his knee with the skirt of his dalmatian, a species of robe made of black velvet, open in front, with large sleeves and... ...g with himself since his passion for gold had turned to his own injury, —a species of uncompleted suicide which kept him at once in the miseries of li...

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...d polished, though without increasing its usual brightness. All this was a species of domestic pre- monition concerning the result of the elections wh... ...hen this was done, each row presented a front of ten chairs, all of divers species. A line of chairs was also placed along the wall, under the windows... ...nce among the upper bourgeoisie of Arcis. The poor fellow belonged to that species of bore which de- sires to explain everything, even the simplest th... ...ended his phrases, a silvery note. When God desired, in order to place all species of mankind in this his terrestrial paradise, to create within it a ... ...es, ended in a point in front, and was laced up behind like a corset. This species of corset defined the back, the hips, and the bust perfectly. The s... ... seem to the cautious old man a poor security for the future? However, the species of governmental mission with which Monsieur de T railles appeared i... ...o take up an active life which might dis- tract your mind. Evidently, this species of temple which you propose, in the fervor of your recollections, t... ... that. This Catholic lives with a woman whom he brought back from Italy,—a species of Goddess of Liberty, who serves him as model and house- keeper.” ... ...n, and above the level of its petty passions and its petty interests. This species of success appears to meet the views of the mysterious paternal int...

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...ove, il- limitable space.” We had now passed the town, and had reached the species of desert which separates Croisic from the village of Batz. Imagine...

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... with their mantle and supporters, gave the ap- pearance of a tomb to this species of edifice, which formed a pendant to the bed, another erection rai... ...avity, due to the abso- lute repose of both body and mind; but though that species of calmness softened but slightly the harsh expression of the count... ...ch assumed the intensity that women put into their guilty affections. By a species of occult communion, the secret of which is in the hearts of mother... ...d his utmost confidence. The baron was a man after the duke’s own heart,—a species of butcher, built for strength, tall, virile in face, cold and hars...

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...sense; they see plainly that Judge Douglas is playing cuttle-fish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by... ...d hold them alike in a new Territory. That is perfectly logical if the two species of property are alike and are equally founded in right. But if you ... ...ng in Galesburgh, last week, undertakes to establish that I am guilty of a species of double dealing with the public; that I make speeches of a certai... ...h him, has squatted his Squatter Sovereignty out. But he will keep up this species of humbuggery about Squatter Sov- ereignty. He has at last invented...

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...g girl who has never left her mother’s side made up for it, and gave her a species of ideality. Notwithstanding the graceful lines of her figure, she ... ...ime.” Monsieur Molineux was a grotesque little man, living on his rents,—a species of being that exists nowhere but in Paris, like a certain lichen wh... ...passers-by,—was doubtless invented to endow the Saint-Denis quarter with a species of Palais-Royal. The place, unhealthy and buried on all four sides ... ... produced by a follicular organ,” resumed the great 91 Balzac chemist,—”a species of pocket, or sack, open at both ex- tremities. By one end it is fa... ...y a dead matter expelled from that pouch, or crypt, which is filled with a species of pulp.” “Then hair is what you might call threads of sweat!” crie... ...a humped- back, excessive ugliness, claret stains upon the cheek, Roguin’s species of deformity, and other monstrosities the result of causes beyond t... ... which had given Cesar some uneasiness, and which was now converted into a species of box, where it was possible to seat an old woman. The vestibule, ... ...ts of light, the gaiety, the music, the excitement of dancing brought on a species of intoxication which puts out of sight these gradations in the cre... ...Cesar fell into a sort of slumber, from which no one tried to rouse him,—a species of catalepsy, in which the body lived and suffered while the functi...

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...s was the young vacant mind furnished with much talk about Progress of the Species, Dark Ages, Prejudice, and the like; 82 Sartor Resartus so that al... ...n spilled out: not enough to quench one Appetite; and the collective human species clutching at them!— Can we not, in all such cases, rather say: ‘Tak... ...rable, Jew’s-harping and scrannel-piping there; to which the frightfullest species of Magnetic Sleep soon supervened. And if I strove to shake this aw... ...and generic name; whereto, probably enough, the others are only subsidiary species, or slight varieties; or, at most, propagated offsets from the pare... ...First, therefore, of the Poor-Slave, who appears like- wise to have been a species of Innkeeper. I quote from the original: Poor-Slave Household. “‘Th... ...self down into a wide- spreading rooted error, that Tailors are a distinct species in Physiology, not Men, but fractional Parts of a Man. Call any one... ...ced, of the Tailor alone?—What too are all Poets and moral Teachers, but a species of Meta- phorical Tailors? Touching which high Guild the greatest l...

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...nd the consoles of the Empire, the tea-table supported by a lyre, and that species of sofa, of gnarled mahogany, covered in painted velvet of a chocol... ...stout, with somewhat dim and hazy eyes either green or blue, are the worst species of humanity in Provence; and Charles- Marie-Theodose de la Peyrade ... ...ce and philosophical physiology. There rises, at times, within such men, a species of bile,—a bitter gall, which flies to their head and makes them ca... ...ts. His eyes, of a pale cold blue, expressed in their ordinary condition a species of deceptive sadness, which must have had great charms for women. T... ...ck had frayed the satin, which was re-satined, that is, re- polished, by a species of oil distilled from the wig. In the days of its youth the waistco... ...my by the verdict of a jury he may still be honored at the galleys for the species of honor and integrity practised by criminals among themselves, whi... ...ed wool. The reader must imagine the man’s diseased head issuing from this species of scabbard and cov- ered with a miserable Madras handkerchief, whi... ...e, deserved all the interest she excited in Theodose. So many women of her species may be met with in the streets that the passers-by give them no mor... ...lue of an isolated masterpiece; she was a complete and perfect type of her species. The woman was mounted on muddy sabots; but her feet, carefully wra...

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...lained that by scooping out the head, which would afford a new and delicious species of nourishment for the poor, a parachute, in principle some thin... ...them selves acquainted with the manners and customs of two most interesting species of animals, the author submitted that some measures should be imm... ...erwise, and we state it as a fact which is highly creditable to the whole species, who, occasion offering, did not seize with avidity on any op...

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... some sense belonged to her was not only to insult her, but to cause her a species of artistic pain; for all artists have a spot of predilection where... ...heir words, their joys, their caresses became suffused, as it were, with a species of frenzy. They feared the future. What feeling can be compared in ...

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...ch the world is created. But though the conception of the ideas as genera or species is forgotten or laid aside, the distinction of the visible and in... ... . SOCRATES: The next question is, whether virtue is knowledge or of another species? MENO: Y es, that appears to be the question which comes next in ...