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Ch. Darwin
CHARLES DARWIN:
HIS LIFE TOLD IN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
CHAPTER, AND IN A SELECTED SERIES
OF HIS PUBLISHED LETTERS.
EDITED BY HIS SON, FRANCIS DARWIN, F.R.S.
WITH A PORTRAIT.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1908.
PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON AND BECCLES.
TO DR. HOLLAND, ST. MORITZ.
13th July, 1892.
Dear Holland,
This book is associated in my mind with St. Moritz (where I worked atit), and therefore with you.
I inscribe your name on it, not only in token of my remembrance of yourmany acts of friendship, but also as a sign of my respect for one wholives a difficult life well.
Yours gratefully,
Francis Darwin.
"For myself I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for thestudy of Truth; ... as being gifted by nature with desire to seek,patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readinessto reconsider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being aman that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and thathates every kind of imposture. So I thought my nature had a kind offamiliarity and relationship with Truth."—Bacon. (Proem to theInterpretatio Naturæ.)
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (1892).
In preparing this volume, which is practically an abbreviation of theLife and Letters (1887), my aim has been to retain as far as possiblethe personal parts of those volumes. To render this feasible, largenumbers of the more purely scientific letters are omitted, orrepresented by the citation of a few sentences.[1] In certain periods ofmy father's life the scientific and the personal elements run a parallelcourse, rising and falling together in their degree of interest. Thusthe writing of the Origin of Species, and its publication, appealequally to the reader who follows my father's career from interest inthe man, and to the naturalist who desires to know something of thisturning point in the history of Biology. This part of the story hastherefore been told with nearly the full amount of available detail.
In arranging my material I have followed a roughly chronologicalsequence, but the character and variety of my father's researches make astrictly chronological order an impossibility. It was his habit to workmore or less simultaneously at several subjects. Experimental work wasoften carried on as a refreshment or variety, while books entailing BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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