![]() But despite his failures in school, there is every indication that Darwin was a deep, active thinker. He was offered the chance to go on the Beagle almost by default, for few men could afford to spend several years without financial reward. He went on to Cambridge to study for the ministry, while his father, a country doctor, shook his head in grave misgiving. This was the experience that was to culminate in The Origin of Species more than twenty years later.ĭarwin had no more than a fair formal education, was an indifferent student, and had failed in medical school. The greater part of the voyage was a protracted circumnavigation of South America which gave him opportunities for landings and journeys into the interior, both into southern Patagonia and the pampas country from the east and at various places along the Pacific coast. ![]() Beagle, on a journey that lasted five years. A YOUNG man of twenty-two, Charles Darwin left England as naturalist on board a warship, H.M.S. ![]()
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