Even before the "Origin" appeared Darwin anticipated the first results upon the mind of naturalists. He wrote to Asa Gray, Dec. 21, 1859: "I have made up my mind to be well abused; but I think it of importance that my notions should be read by intelligent men, accustomed to scientific argument, though NOT naturalists. It may seem absurd, but I think such men will drag after them those naturalists who have too firmly fixed in their heads that a species is an entity." ("Life and Letters" II. page 245.)英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
I am utterly ashamed, and groan over my handwriting. It was "Natural Preservation." Natural persecution is what the author ought to suffer. It rejoices me that you do not object to the term. Hooker made the same remark that it ought to have been "Variation and Natural Selection." Yet with domestic productions, when selection is spoken of, variation is always implied. But I entirely agree with your and Hooker's remark.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
He who thinks nature, in the narrow sense of the word, is alone to be followed, will produce but a scanty entertainment for the imagination: everything is to be done with which it is natural for the mind to be pleased, whether it proceeds from simplicity or variety, uniformity or irregularity: whether the scenes are familiar or exotic; rude and wild, or enriched and cultivated; for it is natural for the mind to be pleased with all these in their turn. In short, whatever pleases has in it what is analogous to the mind, and is therefore, in the highest and best sense of the word, natural.英文原著 · 《Seven Discourses on Art》
The eagle, in a long discourse, demonstrates that, as all natural things have a natural place towards which they move by natural inclination, and as sound is only broken air, so every sound must come to Fame's House, "though it were piped of a mouse" -- on the same principle by which every part of a mass of water is affected by the casting in of a stone. The poet is all the while borne upward, entertained with various information by the bird; which at last cries out --英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
[3] See on this subject Dr. Scott's interesting work, `The Deaf and Dumb,' 2nd edit. 1870, p. He says, "This contracting of natural gestures into much shorter gestures than the natural expression requires, is very common amongst the deaf and dumb. This contracted gesture is frequently so shortened as nearly to lose all semblance of the natural one, but to the deaf and dumb who use it, it still has the force of the original expression."英文原著 · 《The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals》
And they were interested in the concept of a naturalistic world. and they were interested in the concept of a naturalistic world.演讲 · 《Is anatomy destiny ~ Alice Dreger》
But you're not naturally austere, any more than I'm naturally vicious.电影 · 《Jane Eyre (2011)》
Naturally, naturally. And may I congratulate you- that is, your people- on deciding to allow the festival to go on tonight as planned?电影 · 《The Sound of Music (1965)》