Manifold Subsequent Experience Has Led To A

That The Variability Of An Organism To A Certain Extent Is A Constant And Certain Condition Of Life We Admit, Otherwise There Would Be No Distinguishable Individuals Of A Species.

The Steam-engine In Its Manifold Applications, The Crime-decreasing Gas-lamp, The Lightning Conductor, The Electric Telegraph, The Law Of Storms And Rules For The Mariner's Guidance In Them, The Power Of Rendering Surgical Operations Painless, The Measures For Preserving Public Health, And For Preventing Or Mitigating Epidemics,-such Are Among The More Important Practical Results Of Pure Scientific Research, With Which Mankind Have Been Blessed And States Enriched.

Manifold Subsequent Experience Has Led To A Truer Appreciation And A More Moderate Estimate Of The Importance Of The Dependence Of One Living Being Upon Another.

Cuvier Had Preceded Lamarck In Specifying The Kinds And Degrees Of Variation, Which His Own Observations And Critical Judgment Of The Reports Of Others Led Him To Admit.

No Naturalist Has Devoted More Painstaking Attention To The Structure Of The Barnacles Than Mr. Darwin.