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Day 62 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge




Sep 5: Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES

Survival of the Fittest

Just as the individual has a definite length of life, so have species
a limited duration. The progress and transition of the world,
Darwin declares, will see the extinction of certain variants of
human life.

Read from Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES ..........   Vol. 11 , pp. 353-357


Sep 6: Carlyle's SIR WALTER SCOTT

The Pride of All Scotchmen

Many sons of Scotland have striven eagerly for the great place
held by Sir Walter Scott. Carlyle describes the qualities that combined
to make him the idol of his people and the master of historical
romance.

Read Carlyle's SIR WALTER SCOTT .....................   Vol. 25, pp. 393-403


Sep 7: DESTRUCTION OF DA DERGA'S HOSTEL

The King's Love

There she was undoing her hair—the loveliest woman the eyes of
men ever beheld, the light of wooing in her regal eyes. A longing
for her overwhelmed the warrior-king.

Read from DESTRUCTION OF DA DERGA'S HOSTEL .....   Vol. 49, pp. 199-209


Sep 8: Helmholtz's ICE AND GLACIERS

When Europe Lay Under Ice

There was a time when the snow fell and did not melt in summer.
Then from the frozen north there descended huge masses
of ice that covered northern Europe and most of North America.
Glaciers reveal a new world to us.

Read from Helmholtz's ICE AND GLACIERS ......     Vol. 30, pp. 211-223