Lanterna Rally

Author: Elizabeth Jane Whately

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781230063195

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... and was kept up by occasional correspondence. Another acquaintance (already alluded to), renewed this year, ripened into a friendship which contributed much to the interest and pleasure of his later years--namely, with the late Mrs. Hill, of Cork, whose high qualities of mind and heart were such as to recommend her peculiarly to the Archbishop. With no one, perhaps, at this period of his life, did he carry on a more intimate and unreserved correspondence. She was able to assist in many of his literary labours, and wrote many papers from his suggestions; and their intercourse by letter was only broken by the illness which ended in her death. ' October 6, 1850. ' My dear Mrs. Arnold, -- What in the world can have possessed the Archbishop that he sends us a parcel of haws? Now, guess Do you give it up? They are some of the fruit of the red--flowering hawthorn which dear budded with her own fair hands. They are sent, however, not merely to show how well it has flowered, but in case you and she have a mind to try the experiment of sowing them, and trying what will come. I have been trying several such experiments, and should follow them up if I had leisure; for the subject of Varieties, both of plants and animals, is particularly interesting to me. Among other things, it is connected with the question whether all mankind are of one species. The two extreme opinions are, 1st, that of those who teach that negroes, Europeans, Tartars, Red Indians, &c., are distinct species; and 2nd, that of Lamarck and the Vestiges of Creation, who hold that men are descended from apes, and those again from cockles and worms; and between these there are very many shades of opinion. ' I have sown the seeds of the...