Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: gobucks
http://www.blackmask.com/Liberal_Arts/Charles_Darwin/more2.html

I am sure many people talking about Darwin have never read his book "Origin of Species".
Above URL is free and might give some insight.

The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection
From the most remote period in the history of the world organic beings have been found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is not arbitrary like the grouping of the stars in constellations. The existence of groups would have been of simple significance, if one group had been exclusively fitted to inhabit the land, and another the water; one to feed on flesh, another on vegetable matter, and so on;

Review This Title O Reviews Recommend this book to a friend! Add to My Bookshelf

MS-Reader † Acrobat † Rocket eBook † Zipped format † iSilo † Mobipocket † EB-1150 † Plucker new (Added: Fri Aug 04 2000 HTML Reads: 1559 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2) Rate It Fri Aug 04 2000
23 posted on 02/11/2006 6:37:52 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (“Don't approach a Bull from the front, a Horse from the rear, or a Fool from any side.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
You forgot to use the full title of the book. You need to include "or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" is far too often left off the title. But that is the one that it was originally published with.

Who were the "not-favored" races...the Zulus that the British were fighting with, along with all of the other African tribes, and, of course, the Aborigines of Australia.

27 posted on 02/11/2006 7:43:24 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson