A822.05    Beagle Library:     Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 5.   Text

tina, over-rate the services. which Heaven, for my consolation (so I will flatter myself) in a very heavy disappointment that was to follow, made me an humble instrument of rendering to the worthiest of families! To that Heaven be all the glory! By ascribing so much to the agent, fear you not that you depreciate the First Cause? Give to the Supreme His due, and what will be left for me to claim? What but a common-service, which any one of your family would, in the like circumstances, have done

A556.2    Beagle Library:     Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: John Stockdale, R. Faulder, Longman, Lackington and J. Harding. vol. 2.   Text   Image

winter begins, and continues till November or December, the autumn intervening between both. About this time the south winds begin to blow stronger, and bring the cold with them; not indeed equal to that in countries where snow and ice are known, but so keen that the light dresses are lain by, and cloth or other warm stuffs worn. THERE are two causes of the cold felt in this country, and nature, wise in all her ways, provides others which produce the same effect at Quito. The first cause of cold

CUL-DAR42.183    Note:    [Undated]   The longitudinal furrows on mountains well explained in my Glen Roy paper   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [183] The longitudinal furrows on mountains well explained in my Glen Roy paper — a flat bottomed cove if suddenly elevated would not be produced downwards — a tidal channel (aided probably by first cause which made cove) giving entrance to sea, which would then act on same principle, it widens a parallel sided fissure, [sketch] the action of sea being confined to beach — Lines A B, however must converge because power will diminish from protection

A793.3    Beagle Library:     Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 3.   Text

constant accretion of new matter in a proper state, may be gradually developed, but we find it impossible to conceive how, by the action of second causes, without the intervention of the first cause, the butterfly should be formed in the caterpillar, unless it preexists there as a germe or f tus. Is it not clear, asks Dr. Virey in his lively manner, as Blumenbach and other Physiologists maintain, that there is a formative power, a nisus formativus, which organizes the embryo? Admirable discovery! says

A597.6a    Beagle Library:     Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 6, part 1.   Text   Image

; secondly, according as the frontiers are traced conformably to the various pretensions of bordering states; thirdly, according as, admitting the legality of the limits, and that they have been astronomically determined with sufficient precision, we exclude from the estimation of the area the countries that are entirely uninhabited, or occupied by savage nations. It may be conceived, that the first cause chiefly affects the superficial measurement, where the frontiers stretch, as for instance in Peru

A731.02    Beagle Library:     Scoresby, William. 1820. An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Hurst, Robinson and Co. vol. 2.   Text

passeth through the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth ? Hence, while we admire the cool and determined intrepidity of those who successfully encounter the huge mysticetus, if we are led to reflect on the source of the power hy which the strength of men is rendered effectual for the mighty undertaking; our reflections must lead us to the Great first Cause, as the only source from whence such power could he derived. Whenever a whale lies on the surface of

A751.02    Beagle Library:     Burchell, William John. 1822-4. Travels in the interior of Southern Africa. 2 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 2.   Text

the soul, or of the glorious and beneficent nature of the Great First Cause, the Source of all which is good, the Divine Father of the universe. Let us, in short, contrast piety with atheism, the philosopher with the rude savage, the monarch with the Chief, luxury with want, philanthropy with lawless rapine: let us set before us in one view, the lofty cathedral and the straw-hut, the flowery garden and the stony waste, the verdant meadow and the arid sands. And when our imagination shall have

A782    Beagle Library:     Head, Francis Bond. 1826. Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes. London: John Murray.   Text

Americans have certainly become independent of the government of Spain, and this has of course proceeded from their own positive strength, and from the imbecility of the Spanish government; but supposing it to have arisen from the first cause only, still it must be admitted that a young nation may be strong enough to gain its independence, before it has education, wisdom, or experience enough to know what to do with it; and taking into consideration the peculiar political situation of the country

A761.01    Beagle Library:     Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 1: Mammalia (1)   Text

transfer or emanation of part of the life of the parent to the ovum; and that no similar phenomenon presents itself amid the changes to which inanimate matter is subject. Our endeavours to trace the origin of vital actions bring us naturally to this process, and from it we mount to the inference of an original parent, which at some remote period received its being from a first cause. From our attempts to investigate the generative processes, we have every reason to infer, that the embryo or germ is

A914    Book:     Lawrence, John. 1829. The horse in all his varieties and uses. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.   Text

; and let it be pierced in such sort, as you can see in the figure, hereafter expressed. But to be sure, first cause the horse to be ridden before you, and mark well where he toucheth most, and there remedy the shoe, by making it the straighter in that place. The planch or pancelet (bar) shoe, maketh a good foot and evil leg; because it maketh the foot to grow beyond the measure of the leg. Notwithstanding, for a weak heel, it is marvellous good, and will last longer than any shoe, and has been

A505.1    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1830. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 1.   Text

with equal truth, that in no scientific works in our language can more eloquent passages be found, concerning the fitness, harmony, and grandeur of all parts of the creation, than in those of Playfair. They are evidently the unaffected expressions of a mind, which contemplated the study of nature, as best calculated to elevate our conceptions of the attributes of the First Cause. At any other time the force and elegance of Playfair's style must have insured popularity to the Huttonian doctrines

A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text

piece of poetry on some religious subject represented as a play. A tos, The pleadings and proceedings in a law-suit. Estar en los autos. To know a thing profoundly. AUT GENE, sm. (Bot.) Daffodil. AUT GRAFO, sm. Autograph, first copy, archetype. AUT MATO, sm. Automaton, a machine Which has the power of motion within itself. AUT R, RA, s. 1. Author, the first cause or inventor of a thing, 2. One that composes a literary work. 3. Manager of a theatre. 4. (For.) Plaintiff or claimant. AUTOR A, sf

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

their rocky channels, they would endeavour, as all rivers do when not cut off by rapid tides and currents, to produce deltas, and these might at first cause mixtures of gravel, sand and clay; but the more they were advanced the greater would be their tendency to a horizontal arrangement, and, consequently, the less the velocity of the current, and the smaller the transporting power. Therefore the same river which could once carry large pebbles to the sea would after a lapse of time be unable to

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

Sun's light to germinate, seeds and plants, in order to do so, must be sowed and placed in darkness before they began to vegetate.3 A small heat and moisture first cause their living principle to begin its operations, but they cannot flower and fruit until they receive the solar beams; nor could they grow without light, air and moisture.4 A portion of oxygen air is essential to 3 Solar light is unfriendly to first germination. London mentions, as one of the 'necessary conditions of germination

A746    Beagle Library:     British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1833. Lithographed signatures of the members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, who met at Cambridge, June M.DCCC.XXXIII, with a report of the proceedings at the public meetings during the week: and an alphabetical list of the members. Cambridge: John Smith.   Text   PDF

sels of his Creator. If he had said that physical phenomena, unless connected with the ideas of order and of law, were of little worth; he might further say, that an intellectual grasp of material laws of the highest order had no moral worth, except it were combineid with another movement of the mind raising it to the perception of an intelligent First Cause. It was by help of this last movement that nature's language was comprehended that her laws became pregnant with meaning that material

CUL-DAR41.23-39    Note:    [1835.08.00]   'Recapitulation and concluding remarks'   Text   Image

(De la Beche paper on Jamaica) (Speculations on method of S. American elevations R.N. p 11) (Versus Sir J. Herschel ideas of first Cause. R.N. p. 32) (Granitic congolm: oldest most modern rocks in Europe R.N 110) (In Europe limited volcanos limited earthquakes limited but great local elevations contrast with America) (Good abstract of Humb. S. American geology in Daubeny p. 349) {Lyell states that East Indian volcanoes characterized by abundance of sulphuric acid vapours (RN. p. 48 49. On

A25    Book:     Babbage, Charles. 1838. The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. 2d edn. London: John Murray.   Text   Image

Babbage, Charles. 1838. The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. 2nd edn. London: John Murray. [page ii] THE NINTH BRIDGEWATER TREATISE A FRAGMENT. BY CHARLES BABBAGE, ESQ. ___________________________ We may thus, with the greatest propriety, deny to the mechanical philosophers and mathematicians of recent times any authority with regard to their views of the administration of the universe; we have no reason whatever to expect from their speculations any help, when we ascend to the first cause and

F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF

. This likewise would render it probable that the utility of a distant landmark is the first cause of its adoration. About two leagues beyond this curious tree we halted for the night: at this instant an unfortunate cow was spied by the lynx-eyed Gauchos. Off they set in chase, and in a few minutes she was dragged in by the lazo, and slaughtered. We here had the four necessaries of life en el campo, pasture for the horses, water (only a muddy puddle), meat, and firewood. The Gauchos were in high

A585    Book:     Lindley, John. 1840. The theory of horticulture; or, an attempt to explain the principal operations of gardening upon physiological principles. London: Longman.   Text   Image

a first cause, over which we have, therefore, no control; but the fact of great longevity in some seeds is certain, and there seems no reason why the conditions which [page] OF SEED-PACKING. 18

A2    Book:     [Chambers, Robert] 1844. Vestiges of the natural history of creation. London: John Churchill.   Text

Here science leaves us, but only to conclude, from other grounds, that there is a First Cause to which all others are secondary and ministrative, a primitive almighty will, of which these laws are merely the mandates. That great Being, who shall say where is his dwelling-place, or what his history! Man pauses breathless at the contemplation of a subject so much above his finite faculties, and only can wonder and adore! [page] 2

A2    Book:     [Chambers, Robert] 1844. Vestiges of the natural history of creation. London: John Churchill.   Text

matter? Cannot the first cause of all we see and know have fraught matter itself, from its very beginning, with all the attributes necessary to develop into mind, as well as he can have from the first made the attributes of mind wholly different from those of matter, only in order afterwards, by an imperceptible and incomprehensible link, to join the two together? * * [The decombination of the matter on which mind rests] is this a reason why mind must be annihilated ? Is the temporary reverting

A33    Book:     Combe, George. 1847. The Constitution of Man and Its Relation to External Objects. Edinburgh: Maclachlan, Stewart, & Co., Longman & Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., W. S. Orr & Co., London, James M'Glashan, Dublin.   Text

permitted to proceed in an unrestricted course of crime. They absolutely insist on arresting his progress, and their first question is, How may this best be done? Intellect answers, By removing the causes which produce the offences. The first cause the great preponderance of the animal organs cannot, by any means yet known, be summarily removed. Intellect, therefore, points out another alternative that of supplying, by moral and physical restraint, the control which, in a brain better

CUL-DAR205.3.167    Note:    1855.06.30   On theory of Descent a divergence is implied & I think diversity of   Text   Image

plants. I have been led to this by looking at a heath thickly clothed by heather, a fertile meadow, both crowded, yet one cannot doubt more life supported in second than in first; hence (in part) more animals are supported. This is first cause, but more results from struggle, (I must think out the last propositions). Heath, Pinewoods, Lakes, Arctic Regions many individuals few species. It follows that if there [167v

CUL-DAR8.(1-102)    Draft:    1856   'Natural selection' chapter 3 (On the possibility of all organic beings occasionally crossing and on the remarkable susceptibility of the reproductive system to external agencies)   Text   Image

up suckers c.— Considering this strictly parallel series of facts, that it can hardly be disputed that unnatural conditions have a special action in lessening the fertility of organic beings, it seems to me, that the view here adopted, that the lessened fertility is the first cause aided by excess of food selection, that that double flowers, fine fruit, large roots, c is the result. Therefore the enormous class of facts here alluded to, come, I think, fairly under the present discussion,*a

F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

propagate by runners, suckers. These several affections have always been considered as the causes of the lessened or destroyed fertility, owing to an antagonism or compensation in growth. I strongly suspect the effect has been here held for the cause. I do not doubt that if any cause whatever produced a great development, especially if in the proximity to the reproductive organs, this would tend to produce infertility: but we have to consider what so frequently gives in cultivated plants the first