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as the third edition, and Volume V.has no edition marked in the title.) In neither of these is the evolutionary point of view so strong as in the second edition.
We have gone through all the passages marked by Mr.Darwin for future reference in the third and fourth editions, and have been only able to find the following, which occurs in the third edition (Volume I., 1836, page 242) (14/8.

There is also (ed.

1837, Volume II., page 344) a vague reference to Natural Selection, of which the last sentence is enclosed in pencil in inverted commas, as though Mr.Darwin had intended to quote it: "In other parts of Africa the xanthous variety [of man] often appears, but does not multiply.

Individuals thus characterised are like seeds which perish in an uncongenial soil.") "The variety in form, prevalent among all organised productions of nature, is found to subsist between individual beings of whatever species, even when they are offspring of the same parents.

Another circumstance equally remarkable is the tendency which exists in almost every tribe, whether of animals or of plants, to transmit to their offspring and to perpetuate in their race all individual peculiarities which may thus have taken their rise.


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