The Foundations of the Origin of Species

Origin, Ed. i. p. 481, vi. p. 659.

516

The discussion on the three species of Rhinoceros which also occurs in the Essay of 1842, p. 48 (#pgepubid00015), was omitted in Ch. XIV of the Origin, Ed. i.

517

This corresponds to a paragraph in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 483, vi. p. 662, where it is assumed that animals have descended “from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.” In the Origin, however, the author goes on, Ed. i. p. 484, vi. p. 663: “Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.”

518

This sentence corresponds, not to the final section of the Origin, Ed. i. p. 484, vi. p. 664, but rather to the opening words of the section already referred to (Origin, Ed. i. p. 480, vi. p. 657).

519

This simile occurs in the Essay of 1842, p. 50 (#FNanchor_177_177), and in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 485, vi. p. 665, i. e. in the final section of Ch. XIV (vi. Ch. XV). In the MS. there is some erasure in pencil of which I have taken no notice.

520

An almost identical sentence occurs in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 487, vi. p. 667. The fine prophecy (in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 486, vi. p. 666) on “the almost untrodden field of inquiry” is wanting in the present Essay.

521

See the last paragraph on p. 488 of the Origin, Ed. i., vi. p. 668.

522

A passage corresponding to this occurs in the sketch of 1842, p. 51 (#FNanchor_179_179), but not in the last chapter of the Origin.

523

This sentence occurs in an almost identical form in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 490, vi. p. 669. It will be noted that man is not named though clearly referred to. Elsewhere (Origin, Ed. i. p. 488) the author is bolder and writes “Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.” In Ed. vi. p. 668, he writes “Much light &c.”

524

For the history of this sentence (with which the Origin of Species closes) see the Essay of 1842, p. 52, note 2 (#cn_183): also the concluding pages of the Introduction (#pgepubid00003).

525

These four words are added in pencil between the lines.