It Seems To Me Absurd To Doubt

Hence, A Traveller Should Be A Botanist, For In All Views Plants Form The Chief Embellishment.

... Probably All The Organic Beings Which Have Ever Lived On This Earth Have Descended From Some One Primordial Form, Into Which Life Was First Breathed.

This Fundamental Subject Of Natural Selection Will Be Treated At Some Length In The Fourth Chapter; And We Shall Then See How Natural Selection Almost Inevitably Causes Much Extinction Of The Less Improved Forms Of Life And Induces What I Have Called Divergence Of Character.

It Is A Cursed Evil To Any Man To Become As Absorbed In Any Subject As I Am In Mine.

[alexander Von Humboldt Was The] Greatest Scientific Traveller Who Ever Lived.