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There are one or two points to be ee t a 
regards he "auctassfal treatment of 
A ens. The first is not to ovétpö Mine m, iat, in 
o let their roots feel the 
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3 of these andan irreparable jojury will be 
-g Pa in A Eaa of ate shed 
is, that th ish 
gest to secure perfect iitaaorh, but “the dryin ies 
cess must not, be carried too far—not so oa indeed, as 
was commonly the case in the olden time 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 
following ex'rac's are om Profes:or 
apa inaugural address at He Telfs meeting on 
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of it, however luminous, can convey ; 
bea n 
papers were follo 
1859 by the babila of the first edition of T he “Origin 
of Species. 
„All grea eat yer come st to the birth. Coper- 
red his 
S, informed you, ponde s great work 
for thirty-three ss Ne for near] enty years 
ept the idea of gravitation before his mind ; for twent 
years also he lt n his discovery uxions, 
and doubtless would have tinued to ze it the 
bject of his ate thought had he not found that 
Leibnitz was upon ra Darwin for two and twenty 
n 
his trac A concentrated, but full 
and e ane epitome oh, his labours — pein on ae 
The book was by no means an easy one ; and probably 
not one in every score of those who bin attqohd: it had 
FIG. 51.—SPECIMEN CYCLAMEN, FROM THE COLLECTION OF H, 
read its pages through, or were compet: tent to grasp their 
eR A rin if they had. Ido not say this merely to dis- 
credit them ; for there were in those days some Bee | 
and a a. and who — mistook 
views. In fact the work nee an T i ; and it | 
found tis in Mr. Hu 
k nothing re adfnira in the way of 
scientific exposition than those aniy articles of his 
the origin of species. He sw the curve of 
ussion through the really sienineehe points of the 
sibject; enriched his exposition with ound original 
remarks and reflections, rig umming up in a single 
pi ithy sentence an argument which — compact 
| pin nd would h there is ou 
ave spread “a ph ges 
ade by the book itself eg ff expos 
r; and that is 
mpression m: 
yast amount of labour, 
aie: atits pilnai: 
what are called 
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its brother or paradi and in such differences we hav 
‘ variet inc ient, No oe could tell —_ far 
arried ; the 
ras to constitute different species, _ The function of 
ot Nature and to produce her- results; and this was the 
ad 
methi arwin. He made himself acquainted with 
what cosh without any manner of t, be done in 
th of p variation. He associated himself 
= eee pres a —bought, begged, kept, and observ: 
reed that he could obtain. Though derived from 
a a ee stock, the diversities of these ns w 
pigeon-fancier, as 
selection of some peach pan strikes his fancy, and the 
Pi dib ne 
Gr” 
Mis, 
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ritance, With his 
tion of this variety by tuber ni 
propagat the nani ular ap which he wishes to 
xaggerate, selects it as it rea Successi! 
‘‘ would ever try to Oke i fantail till he saw a ee 
iha tai Gee eloped in some slig 
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