Es ist fiir Menschen ungereimt, aiich nur einen solchen 

 Anschlag zu fassen, oder zu hoffen, dass noch etwa dereinst 

 ein Newton aufstehen konne, der auch nur die Erzeugung 

 eines Grashalms nach Naturgesetzen, die keine Absicht 

 geordnet hat, begreiflich machen werde, sondern man muss 

 diese Einsicht dem Menschen schlechterdings absprechen. 

 — Kant. 



Charles Darwin has declared his belief that, before leav- 

 ing England for the memorable voyage in the Beagle, he 

 was quite indifferent to any speculations upon the subject 

 of evolution — and this in spite of his admiration for his 

 grandfather's Zoonomia as a literary production. — Judd. 



When I was on board the Beagle I believed in the per- 

 manence of species, but, as far as I can remember, vague 

 doubts occasionally flitted across my mind. ... I was 

 much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the 

 organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geo- 

 logical relations of the present to the past inhabitants of 

 that continent. — Darwin. 



