charles_darwin

Preface
always right. As one of Darwin’s biographers put it, we should
‘‘express our admiration and pick our quarrels, discovering his greatness
at one time, his limitations at another.’’ 4 I hope that readers of
this book will enjoy reading about Darwin and The Origin of Species
as much as I did.
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Notes
1. Antonella La Vergata, ‘‘Images of Darwin: A Historiographic Overview,’’
in The Darwinian Heritage, ed. David Kohn (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1985), 904.
2. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation
of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (London: John Murray,
1859), 459.
3. John Barrow, ‘‘Note on This Edition,’’ The Origin of Species (London:
Penguin Classics, 1985), 49; Ernst Mayr, ‘‘Introduction,’’ On the Origin of
Species by Charles Darwin: A Facsimile of the First Edition (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1975), xxiv.
4. Peter Brent, Charles Darwin (London: Heinemann, 1981), 522.