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No real advance was, however, made in the use of the idea in the long period of theologians and natural philosophers which lasted until about the beginning of the seventeenth century, when Greek traditions were largely shaken off and the modern method of inductive observation and reasoning may be said to have begun. Among the lay writers of that century who suggested that species of animals and plants might undergo change 186 DISCOVERY CH. in the course of time was Sir Walter Raleigh. In his Hi...story of the World (1621), written during his imprison- ment, referring to the days of the Flood, he said, " But it is manifest, and undoubtedly true, that many of the Species, which now seeme differing, and of several kindes, were not then in rerum natura " ; and he remarked that he could see no difference, except in size, between the cat of Europe and the ounce of India, the dog-fish and the shark, the dog and the wolf. BufTon, the French naturalist, who is sometimes given the credit of originating modern views of evolution, did not go much farther than this nearly a century and a half later.
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