The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland part 2 (1912)
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e ancestor. Yetthat is just what was done by the great English-man Charles Robert Darwin, who was born inShrewsbury, England, February 12, 1809. His father, who was a doctor, sent him tothe University of Cambridge to study for theChurch, and we learn that he was one of themost popular young men in… … SCIENTISTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 381 38? LIFE-SKETCHES OF GREAT SCIENTISTS father did not want to let him go, but he wasfinally persuaded by the young mans uncle, whothought that Charles was meant for great thingsbecause he had a peculiar nose. Darwin used tosay afterward that his whole career…
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