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But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

~ Richard Owen

Been Before Darwin Elude Facts History Led Most Mr Natural Natural History Remark Statements Test Vagueness

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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.

~ Richard Owen

Admit Critical Degrees Had Him His Judgment Kinds Led Observations Others Own Reports Variation Which

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Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

~ Richard Owen

Barriers Every Every Step Man Nature Parts Progress Relating Separate Several Sought Step Study Technical Which

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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.

~ Richard Owen

Another Appreciation Being Dependence Estimate Experience Importance Led Living Moderate More Subsequent Truer

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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

~ Richard Owen

Affects Certain Chain Darwin Even Ingenious Life Mr Network Principle Rather Some Striking Total Way Which

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Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

~ Richard Owen

After Another Attaining Before Cause Darwin Either Every Individual Maturity Mr Multitude Perish Soon Species Which

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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

~ Richard Owen

Attention Darwin Devoted More Mr Naturalist Painstaking Structure Than

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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.

~ Richard Owen

Admit Certain Certain Extent Condition Constant Extent Individuals Life Organism Otherwise Species Would Would-Be

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The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

~ Richard Owen

Aspirations Case His Inevitably Man Mere Mission Nature Necessity Operations Origin Physiological Powers Psychological Raise Scientific Stage Study Very

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The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

~ Richard Owen

Almost Between Bottle Mystical Relationship Russian Vodka

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