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Excerpt from Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. 8
Gauged by the tremendous sweep Of Science since that period, it is fair to say that Science was then just starting on its real career. It will probably not be disputed that the age Of Darwin is a sharp dividing line between ancient and modern science. Present methods of research and generalization are now so commonplace that the Older limited, narrow systems seem to belong to the distant dark ages. And yet in the year 1830, Charles Darwin was an undergraduate in Cambridge University, which he had entered in prospect Of being a clergyman. He was now becoming fascinated with natural science, and his history-making voyage in the Beagle was to begin the following year.
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