id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 23427 Butler, Samuel Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin .txt text/plain 119734 5765 68 Or the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, addition which I have ventured to make to the theory of Buffon and Dr. Erasmus Darwin--then the wideness of the difference between the Mr. Darwin seems to have followed the one half of Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire's "full account of Buffon's conclusions" upon the subject of climate, food, and other changed conditions of life, and that of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, which assigns only an indirect effect to these, while evolution, may be seen from the following passage, taken from Mr. Darwin's 'Origin of Species':-organs of living bodies, all animal and vegetable forms have been study of animals and plants under domestication than Buffon, Dr. Darwin, "Nature changes a plant or animal's surroundings gradually--man Nevertheless, the use of the word "means" here enables Mr. Darwin to speak of Natural Selection as if it were an active cause ./cache/23427.txt ./txt/23427.txt