Collected Russian songs - Kukushka

Песен еще ненаписанных, сколько?
Скажи, кукушка, пропой.
В городе мне жить или на выселках,
Камнем лежать или гореть звездой?
Звездой.

Солнце мое - взгляни на меня,
Моя ладонь превратилась в кулак,
И если есть порох - дай огня.
Вот так...

Кто пойдет по следу одинокому?
Сильные да смелые
Головы сложили в поле в бою.
Мало кто остался в светлой памяти,
В трезвом уме да с твердой рукой в строю,
в строю.

Солнце мое - взгляни на меня,
Моя ладонь превратилась в кулак,
И если есть порох - дай огня.
Вот так...

Где же ты теперь, воля вольная?
С кем же ты сейчас
Ласковый рассвет встречаешь? Ответь.
Хорошо с тобой, да плохо без тебя,
Голову да плечи терпеливые под плеть,
под плеть.

Солнце мое - взгляни на меня,
Моя ладонь превратилась в кулак,
И если есть порох - дай огня.
Вот так...

- Kino


Những bài hát còn chưa được viết, bao nhiêu?
Hãy nói xem, chim cu ơi, hát thử xem.
Tôi sống trong thành phố hay ở bản làng,
Hòn đá nằm hay vì sao cháy?
Vì sao cháy.

Mặt trời của tôi - hãy nhìn tôi,
Bàn tay tôi đã nắm thành quả đấm,
Và nếu có thuốc súng - thì đưa lửa đây.
Thế đấy...

Ai sẽ đi theo dấu vết đơn độc?
Những cái đầu mạnh mẽ và dũng cảm
Đã chất đống trên cánh đồng trong trận đánh.
Ít người còn đủ trí nhớ sáng suốt,
Trí não tỉnh táo và cả cánh tay cứng cáp ở trong hàng ngũ,
Ở trong hàng ngũ

Mặt trời của tôi - hãy nhìn tôi,
Bàn tay tôi đã nắm thành quả đấm,
Và nếu có thuốc súng - thì đưa lửa đây.
Thế đấy...

Ngươi bây giờ ở chỗ nào nào, khát vọng tự do?
Ngươi đang cùng với ai bây giờ nào
Đang đón bình minh dịu dàng à? Trả lời đi.
Có ngươi thật tốt, thiếu ngươi thật xấu,
Đầu và cả đôi vai nhẫn nại dưới ngọn roi,
Dưới ngọn roi...

Mặt trời của tôi - hãy nhìn tôi,
Bàn tay tôi đã nắm thành quả đấm,
Và nếu có thuốc súng - thì đưa lửa đây.
Thế đấy...

- Phi Long


How many songs haven't been still written?
Tell me, cuckoo, and try to sing.
Do I live in the city or the village,
A laying stone or a burning star?
A burning star.

My sun, look at me,
My hands have been clenched into fists,
And if there is gunpowder, give me fire as well.
That's it...

Who will follow the lonely trace?
The strong and brave heads
Heaped up on the field during the fight.
Few people have enough lucid memory,
Sober mind and firm arms in the rank,
In the rank.

My sun, look at me,
My hands have been clenched into fists,
And if there is gunpowder, give me fire as well.
That's it...

Where are you now, free will?
With who are you now
Meeting the sweet sunrise? Answer.
It's good with you and bad without you
Head and shoulders are patient under the lash
Under the lash.

My sun, look at me,
My hands have been clenched into fists,
And if there is gunpowder, give me fire as well.
That's it...

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Collected Russian songs - Lavanda

In our life, everything happens.
And under the sun the snow does not melt,
And the warm winter meets,
Rain comes in December.

Love or not, do not know.
We sometimes play with love,
And when it is lost
"Not fate," we said.

Lavender, lavender mountain,
Our meetings with you dark blue flowers.
Lavender, lavender mountain,
How many years have passed, but I remember you.

Summer gave heat to us,
Seagull hovering above the waves.
Only us the moon was shining,
The two of us on earth.

But where it took all of this.
There was also no answer.
And now as the two planets
We're far away.

Translated by Google & Leopard

*Version 2.0:

She:
In our life everything happens:
An ice doesn't thaw under the sun,
And the winter meets us with the warmth,
It's raining in December !

He:
Do we love each other or not? We don't know
Sometimes we just play with love.
And when we lose it
We say: "There's no luck!"

Together:
Lavender! Mountain lavender!
Blue flowers of our meetings!
Lavender! Mountain lavender!
So many years had elapsed but we remember it, me and you.

She:
The summer gave its warmth away to us,
A seagull flied above a wave.
The moon shone for us only,
Only for us in the world !

He:
But where did everything all go away?
There wasn't an answer and still there's not.
And now like two planets
We are far away from each other.

Together:
Lavender! Mountain lavender!
Blue flowers of our meetings!
Lavender! Mountain lavender!
So many years had elapsed but we remember it, me and you.

Lavanda (Russian: Лава́нда) — is one of the major hits of Sofia Rotaru, a popular song for duet performance of 1985. The lyrics were written by Mikhail Shabrov and the music was composed by Vladimir Matetsky. This song became the debute of collaboreation of Rotaru and with the new author and composer. Rotaru was awarded platinum disc for selling more than million of copies of this song and the same named album.

Canadian Leonard Cohen has released a similar tune in December 1984 "Dance Me to the End of Love".

[Wikipedia]

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* Vietnamese lyric:

“Trong cuộc sống của chúng ta thường có mọi chuyện.
Và dưới mặt trời tuyết không tan,
Và mùa đông ấm áp -
Mưa rơi vào tháng chạp…”

“Yêu hay là không - chúng mình không biết,
Chúng mình đôi khi chơi đùa với tình yêu,
Và khi đánh mất nó,
“Không phải số phận”, - chúng mình nói.”

Translated by Phi Long


1.
Mọi điều đều có thể trong đời:
Tuyết không tan dưới nắng mặt trời
Mùa đông có nhiều khi ấm áp
Tháng 12 bỗng có mưa rơi

Yêu hay không- chúng mình đâu biết
Anh và em chơi trò tình yêu
Và đến khi tình yêu đi mất
Ta nói rằng “Không hợp duyên nhau”

Rf.
Lavanda- bông hoa núi nhỏ
Cánh biếc xanh, xanh cuộc hẹn hò
Bao nhiêu năm đã qua từ đó
Anh và em vẫn nhớ không quên

2.
Mùa hè đến, đất trời rực nắng
Chim hải âu trên biển lượn bay
Mặt trăng trên đầu mình toả sáng
Cho riêng anh và em nơi này

Nhưng tất cả đã đi đâu mất?
Câu trả lời biết kiếm nơi nao.
Anh và em bây giờ như thể
Hai hành tinh lạ, chẳng hề quen

Translated by Vân Chi

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Collected Russian songs - Zvezda po imeni Solntse

The Star named the Sun
White snow, gray ice, on the cracked earth
Like a patchwork quilt upon it - a city on a loop in the road
And above the city, there are clouds drifting
Hiding the heavenly light
And above the city - there's a yellow haze
The city, for two thousand years,
Lived under the light of the Star
Named the Sun.

And for two thousand years there was war,
War with no particular reason,
War is a young business,
Like medicine against wrinkles.
There's red, red blood,
In an hour it is already just earth
In two flowers and grass grow on it,
In three it is living again

And it is warmed by the rays of the Star
Called the Sun.

And we know that it's always been so,
That Fate loves the one
Who lives by his own rules,
The one who will die young.
He doesn't remember the word 'yes' or the word 'no',
He remembers neither ranks, nor names
But he is able to reach the stars,
Not considering that this is a dream
And falling, singed by the Star
named the Sun.


Zvezda po imeni Solntse (Russian: Звезда по имени Солнце), meaning "The star called the Sun" is an album of the Soviet rock band Kino, released in 1989. It is notable for its mostly personal struggle-oriented lyrics and thoughtful, sad, lonely or sometimes sinister atmosphere. The cover art most likely depicts an obscured star.

Track listing
1."Песня без слов" (A Song Without Words) — 5:06
2."Звезда по имени Солнце" (A Star Called the Sun) — 3:45
3."Невесёлая песня" (Unhappy Song) — 4:18
4."Сказка" (A Fairy Tale) — 5:58
5."Место для шага вперед" (Place for a Step Forward) — 3:39
6."Пачка сигарет" (Pack of Cigarettes) — 4:28
7."Стук" (A Knock) — 3:50
8."Печаль" (Grief) — 5:32
9."Апрель" (April) — 4:40

[Wikipedia]

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* Bonus:

Легенда/ The Legend - Victor Tsoi:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977489716

* About A star called the sun:
http://aonb.blogspot.com/2006/06/star-called-sun.html

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Collected Russian Songs - Zhuravli

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* English lyric:

"Cranes"

(It is a very famous sad song. Author of the text - Rasul Gamzatov)
(Translation revised by Robert Nviiri on 26th May 2005)


It seems to me, sometimes, soldiers,
Who didn't return from the bloody fields,
Didn't lie dead in our land, a single moment,
But transformed into white Cranes.
All along, from time immemorial,
They’re flying, calling out to us from afar,
Not that, we often ruefully,
Keep our silence, glaring up in the sky.

The crane formation, is
flying, wearily in the sky,
Flying in the fog, till dusk.
And in this formation, is left a minute gap,
Probably, this is a place reserved for me.
A day will come, when together with the cranes,
I will soar in the same blue skies,
Calling out from the sky, in bird language,
All to whom, I left on
earth.


Zhuravli (English: The Cranes) is one of the most famous Russian songs to come out of World War II.

The Dagestani poet Rasul Gamzatov, when visiting Hiroshima, was impressed by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the monument to Sadako Sasaki. The memory of paper cranes made by the girl haunted him for months and inspired him to write a poem starting with the now famous lines: "It seems to me sometimes that our soldiers That were not to return from fields of gore Did not lie down into their beds of honour But turned into a bevy of white cranes...". The poem was originally written by Rasul Gamzatov in Avar language. Its famous Russian translation was soon made by a Russian poet and translator Naum Grebnyov.

The poem's publication in the journal Novy Mir caught the attention of Mark Bernes who revised the lyrics and asked Yan Frenkel to compose the music. Bernes' new song premiered in 1969 and has since become one of the best known Russian-language songs all over the world.

In the aftermath, white cranes have become associated with dead soldiers, so much so that a range of WWII memorials in the former Soviet Union feature the image of flying cranes and, in several instances, even the lines from the song.


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* Vietnamese lyric:

Tôi cảm thấy, đôi khi, là những người lính
Đã không đến từ những cánh đồng đẫm máu,
Đã không nằm xuống mặt đất của chúng ta vào lúc nào đó,
Mà đã hóa thành những con sếu trắng.

Cho đến tận bây giờ, từ những thời gian xa xôi ấy,
Họ bay và cho chúng ta tiếng nói của mình.
Có phải vì thế không, mà chúng ta thường hay buồn bã
Im lặng nhìn lên bầu trời?

Bay, bay trên bầu trời, đường bay mệt mỏi,
Bay trong sương mờ vào lúc ngày đang tàn dần.
Và trong vệt chim bay ấy có một quãng trống nhỏ nhoi -
Có thể, đấy là chỗ dành cho tôi.

Sẽ đến một ngày, và cùng đàn sếu
Tôi sẽ bơi trong cùng một sự mơ hồ màu khói thuốc như thế.
Từ dưới vòm trời, theo cách của chim, gọi chào
Tất cả các bạn, những người tôi đã bỏ lại trên mặt đất.

Tôi cảm thấy, đôi khi, là những người lính
Đã không đến từ những cánh đồng đẫm máu,
Đã không nằm xuống mặt đất của chúng ta vào lúc nào đó,
Mà đã hóa thành những con sếu trắng.

Translated by Đim-ma.
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Collected Russian Songs - Kak molody my byli

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* English lyric:

Как молоды мы были/Kak molody my byli (How Young We Were).
Dmitri Khvorostovsky

This is sung by the famous operatic baritone Dmitri Khvorostovsky, with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra led by Constantine Obelian and the Style of Five playing Russian folk instruments.
_Vostorgina01

Look back, unfamiliar passerby,
Your uncompromising look is familiar to me
Maybe that is me, only younger?
We not always remember ourselves.

Nothing on this earth passes without a trace,
And the youth that went away is nevertheless immortal.
How young we were!
How young we were!
How sincerely we loved
How believed we in ourselves!

Others met us back then without laughs (put-downs)
All the flowers on the roads of this earth.
Our friends for their mistakes we forgave
Only changes (cheating) we could not forgive.

The first time we already have won
And only one thing from that we understand.
So others on this earth would not lose you,
Try to not lose yourself!

In the heavens, the sky lightings have gone (sunrise and sunset)
And in the heart, the thunder is calming.
To not forget our loved faces
To not forget our native eyes...

Translated by Classic A111 (Youtube).


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* Vietnamese lyric:

Ngoảnh nhìn lại, một người đi ngang không quen biết,
Cái nhìn không đổi chác được của bạn là quen thuộc đối với tôi...
Có thể, tôi đấy - nhưng trẻ hơn,
Không phải lúc nào chúng ta cũng nhận ra chính mình...

Không có gì trên trái đất lại đi qua mà không để lại dấu vết,
Và tuổi trẻ đã ra đi dù sao cũng vẫn không mất đi.
Chúng ta đã thật trẻ trung,
Chúng ta đã thật trẻ trung,
Chúng ta đã yêu thật chân thành,
Chúng ta đã thật tự tin!

Lúc đó, không giễu cợt, đã gặp chúng ta
Tất cả những bông hoa trên những con đường trái đất...
Chúng ta bỏ qua cho bạn bè mọi khuyết điểm,
Chỉ trừ sự thay lòng đổi dạ là không thể tha thứ.

Không có gì trên trái đất lại đi qua mà không để lại dấu vết,
Và tuổi trẻ đã ra đi dù sao cũng vẫn không mất đi.
Chúng ta đã thật trẻ trung,
Chúng ta đã thật trẻ trung,
Chúng ta đã yêu thật chân thành,
Chúng ta đã thật tự tin!

Hiệp đầu chúng ta đã gỡ lại
Và chỉ học hiểu được một điều:
Để mọi người không đánh mất bạn ở trên trái đất,
Hãy cố gắng đừng tự đánh mất chính mình!

Không có gì trên trái đất lại đi qua mà không để lại dấu vết,
Và tuổi trẻ đã ra đi dù sao cũng vẫn không mất đi.
Chúng ta đã thật trẻ trung,
Chúng ta đã thật trẻ trung,
Chúng ta đã yêu thật chân thành,
Chúng ta đã thật tự tin!

Trên những vòm trời đã tàn dần những vầng sáng,
Và trong những trái tim dông tố đã lặng đi.
Chúng ta không quên những gương mặt yêu thương,
Chúng ta không quên những đôi mắt thân thuộc...

Không có gì trên trái đất lại đi qua mà không để lại dấu vết,
Và tuổi trẻ đã ra đi dù sao cũng vẫn không mất đi.
Chúng ta đã thật trẻ trung,
Chúng ta đã thật trẻ trung,
Chúng ta đã yêu thật chân thành,
Chúng ta đã thật tự tin!

Translated by Đim-ma.

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Thou, thee, thy, thine

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Một Đêm Trong Sáng

ĐÂY là thời điểm của ngươi, TÂM HỒN ơi,
chuyến bay thảnh thơi của ngươi vào trong chốn không lời,

Rời xa sách vở, rời xa nghệ thuật,
ngày được xoá, bài học được làm xong,

Hãy tự mình hiện lên đầy vẹn, lặng yên,
chú mục, trầm tư những chủ đề ngươi yêu nhất.

Đêm, giấc ngủ, cái chết và những vì sao.

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A Clear Midnight

THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou
lovest best.
Night, sleep, death and the stars.

Walt Whitman

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From guest gershon hepner (contact)
NIGHT, SLEEP, STARS AND DEATH

The hour of the soul, said Walt,
away from books, is based on themes
no poet worth his salt can fault.
The first is night, the source of dreams,
the second sleep, where dreams are made,
the third the stars to which dreams reach
the last and fourth, don't be afraid,
is death, which can't the rest impeach,
because it cannot be enjoyed,
experienced only once the soul
has fled, and therefore in its void
is ludicrous as grand guignol.

Inspired by a poem by Walt Whitman which was one of the many that were discuss by Michael Silverblatt's guests on KCRW this afternoon.

http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/2415-Walt-Whitman-A-Clear-Midnight
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'Thou' corresponds to 'I/you/he/she'. (Nominative)
'Thee' corresponds to 'me/you/him/her'. (Accusative)
'Thy' corresponds to 'my/your/his/her'. (Possessive)
'Thine' -- 'mine/yours/his/hers'.

It's an archaic form, and its status was similar to the French vous/tu. At one time, it was the formal form, but became the familiar form around Shakespeare's time.

As for the archaic plural form...

Nominative / Accusative / Possessive
Ye (or you) / you / your, yours

http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatsThouTheeMean/mqkx/post.htm
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"Thee" means "you" (complement), "thou" is "you" (subject), and "thy" is "your".

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These are all words used in old English.

Thou - You (Subject)

Thy - Your

Thee - You (object)

Concerning Thy there's also Thine. Thy was used before consonat sounds and Thine before vowel sounds.

verbs when used with THOU modify as they do now in the 3rd person singular. And also the 3rd person singular form was diferent.

Examples:

Thou art (You are)
Thou couldst (you could)
Thou wilt (you will)
Thou bingest (you bring)
THou shalt (you shall)

Concerning the 3rd peson singular we have:

He cometh (he comes)
She doth, hath (she does, has)

These are very common in old literature. Nowadays it's really rarely used.

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4 laws of Descartes

[The law of evidentness]

The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt.

Thứ nhất đã là phải không bao giờ chấp nhận bất kỳ thứ gì là đúng mà tôi đã không biết một cách rõ ràng như vậy; tức là nói rằng, cẩn thận tránh sự hấp tấp và định kiến, và bao hàm không thứ gì trong phán đoán của tôi hơn thứ đã hiện ra với tâm trí tôi một cách rõ ràng và rành mạch như thể loại bỏ tất cả sở cứ của sự nghi ngờ.

[The law of analysis]

The second, to divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as might be necessary for its adequate solution.

Thứ hai, để phân chia mỗi sự khó khăn trong khi khảo sát thành nhiều phần như có thể, và như có lẽ là tất yếu để có giải pháp thỏa đáng của nó.

[The law of order]

The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.

Thứ ba, để dẫn dắt những suy nghĩ của tôi theo một trật tự mà, bằng cách bắt đầu với những đối tượng đơn giản nhất và dễ nhất để biết, tôi có lẽ tiến lên từng chút một, và, hầu như là thế, từng bước một, cho tới cái biết của những thứ phức tạp hơn; định ra trong tư duy một trật tự nào đó thậm chí với những đối tượng mà trong bản tính riêng của chúng không ở trong một mối quan hệ ưu tiên và liên tục.

[The law of generalization]

And the last, in every case to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so general, that I might be assured that nothing was omitted.

Và thứ cuối cùng, trong mỗi ca để làm ra những sự liệt kê đầy đủ và những sự xem lại tổng quát đến mức mà tôi có lẽ chắc rằng không thứ gì đã bị bỏ sót.

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* Puzzle:

01. Synonyms: evident, manifest, patent, distinct, obvious, apparent, plain, clear

mean readily perceived or apprehended.

evident implies presence of visible signs that lead one to a definite conclusion .
[ hiển nhiên]

manifest implies an external display so evident that little or no inference is required .
[ hiển hiện]

patent applies to a cause, effect, or significant feature that is clear and unmistakable once attention has been directed to it .
[minh xác?]

distinct implies such sharpness of outline or definition that no unusual effort to see or hear or comprehend is required .
[rành mạch, phân minh, rạch ròi?]

obvious implies such ease in discovering that it often suggests conspicuousness or little need for perspicacity in the observer .
[dễ thấy]

apparent is very close to evident except that it may imply more conscious exercise of inference .
[biểu kiến/hiển hiện]

plain suggests lack of intricacy, complexity, or elaboration .
[rõ rệt]

clear implies an absence of anything that confuses the mind or obscures the pattern .
[rõ ràng]

self-evident
[hiển nhiên tự thân/tự minh]


02. The difference between relation and correlation.

Relation may include causation, correlation, convariance, contravariance...

Correlation is two-directions relation; causation is one-direction one.

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Charles Robert Darwin (1809 – 1882)

* Summary of Darwin's theory:

Darwin's theory of evolution is based on key facts and the inferences drawn from them, which biologist Ernst Mayr summarised as follows:

- Every species is fertile enough that if all offspring survived to reproduce the population would grow (fact).

- Despite periodic fluctuations, populations remain roughly the same size (fact).

- Resources such as food are limited and are relatively stable over time (fact).

- A struggle for survival ensues (inference).

- Individuals in a population vary significantly from one another (fact).

- Much of this variation is inheritable (fact).

- Individuals less suited to the environment are less likely to survive and less likely to reproduce; individuals more suited to the environment are more likely to survive and more likely to reproduce and leave their inheritable traits to future generations, which produces the process of natural selection (inference).

- This slowly effected process results in populations changing to adapt to their environments, and ultimately, these variations accumulate over time to form new species (inference).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species

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* THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES DARWIN
From The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

By Charles Darwin
Edited by his Son Francis Darwin

Contents:

CAMBRIDGE 1828-1831.
"VOYAGE OF THE 'BEAGLE' FROM DECEMBER 27, 1831, TO OCTOBER 2, 1836."
FROM MY RETURN TO ENGLAND (OCTOBER 2, 1836) TO MY MARRIAGE (JANUARY 29,
FROM MY MARRIAGE, JANUARY 29, 1839, AND RESIDENCE IN UPPER GOWER STREET,
RESIDENCE AT DOWN FROM SEPTEMBER 14, 1842, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1876.
MY SEVERAL PUBLICATIONS.
WRITTEN MAY 1ST, 1881.

[My father's autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children,—and written without any thought that they would ever be published. To many this may seem an impossibility; but those who knew my father will understand how it was not only possible, but natural. The autobiography bears the heading, 'Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character,' and end with the following note:—"Aug. 3, 1876. This sketch of my life was begun about May 28th at Hopedene (Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood's house in Surrey.), and since then I have written for nearly an hour on most afternoons." It will easily be understood that, in a narrative of a personal and intimate kind written for his wife and children, passages should occur which must here be omitted; and I have not thought it necessary to indicate where such omissions are made. It has been found necessary to make a few corrections of obvious verbal slips, but the number of such alterations has been kept down to the minimum.—F.D.]

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2010/2010-h/2010-h.htm

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* ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION,
OR THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES
IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
By CHARLES DARWIN, M.A.,
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL, GEOLOGICAL, LINNEAN, ETC., SOCIETIES;

AUTHOR OF 'JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES DURING H. M. S. BEAGLE'S VOYAGE
ROUND THE WORLD.'

FIFTH THOUSAND.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1860.
The right of Translation is reserved.


LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,
AND CHARING CROSS.

[v]
CONTENTS.
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Introduction

Page 1

CHAPTER I.
Variation under Domestication.

Causes of Variability—Effects of Habit—Correlation of Growth—Inheritance—Character of Domestic Varieties—Difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species—Origin of Domestic Varieties from one or more Species—Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin—Principle of Selection anciently followed, its Effects—Methodical and Unconscious Selection—Unknown Origin of our Domestic Productions—Circumstances favourable to Man's power of Selection

7-43

CHAPTER II.
Variation under Nature.

Variability—Individual differences—Doubtful species—Wide ranging, much diffused, and common species vary most—Species of the larger genera in any country vary more than the species of the smaller genera—Many of the species of the larger genera resemble varieties in being very closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having restricted ranges

44-59

[vi]
CHAPTER III.
Struggle for Existence.

Its bearing on natural selection—The term used in a wide sense—Geometrical powers of increase—Rapid increase of naturalised animals and plants—Nature of the checks to increase—Competition universal—Effects of climate—Protection from the number of individuals—Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout nature—Struggle for life most severe between individuals and varieties of the same species; often severe between species of the same genus—The relation of organism to organism the most important of all relations

60-79

CHAPTER IV.
Natural Selection.

Natural Selection—its power compared with man's selection—its power on characters of trifling importance—its power at all ages and on both sexes—Sexual Selection—On the generality of intercrosses between individuals of the same species—Circumstances favourable and unfavourable to Natural Selection, namely, intercrossing, isolation, number of individuals—Slow action—Extinction caused by Natural Selection—Divergence of Character, related to the diversity of inhabitants of any small area, and to naturalisation—Action of Natural Selection, through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the descendants from a common parent—Explains the Grouping of all organic beings

80-130

CHAPTER V.
Laws of Variation.

Effects of external conditions—Use and disuse, combined with natural selection; organs of flight and of vision—Acclimatisation—Correlation of growth—Compensation and economy of growth—False correlations—Multiple, rudimentary, and lowly organised structures variable—Parts developed in an unusual manner are highly variable: specific characters more variable than generic: secondary sexual characters variable—Species of the same genus vary in an analogous manner—Reversions to long-lost characters—Summary

131-170

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CHAPTER VI.
Difficulties on Theory.

Difficulties on the theory of descent with modification—Transitions—Absence or rarity of transitional varieties—Transitions in habits of life—Diversified habits in the same species—Species with habits widely different from those of their allies—Organs of extreme perfection—Means of transition—Cases of difficulty—Natura non facit saltum—Organs of small importance—Organs not in all cases absolutely perfect—The law of Unity of Type and of the Conditions of Existence embraced by the theory of Natural Selection

171-206

CHAPTER VII.
Instinct.

Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin—Instincts graduated—Aphides and ants—Instincts variable—Domestic instincts, their origin—Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees—Slave-making ants—Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct—Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts—Neuter or sterile insects—Summary

207-244

CHAPTER VIII.
Hybridism.

Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids—Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication—Laws governing the sterility of hybrids—Sterility not a special endowment, but incidental on other differences—Causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids—Parallelism between the effects of changed conditions of life and crossing—Fertility of varieties when crossed and of their mongrel offspring not universal—Hybrids and mongrels compared independently of their fertility—Summary

245-278

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CHAPTER IX.
On the Imperfection of the Geological Record.

On the absence of intermediate varieties at the present day—On the nature of extinct intermediate varieties; on their number—On the vast lapse of time, as inferred from the rate of deposition and of denudation—On the poorness of our palæontological collections—On the intermittence of geological formations—On the absence of intermediate varieties in any one formation—On the sudden appearance of groups of species—On their sudden appearance in the lowest known fossiliferous strata

279-311

CHAPTER X.
On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings.

On the slow and successive appearance of new species—On their different rates of change—Species once lost do not reappear—Groups of species follow the same general rules in their appearance and disappearance as do single species—On Extinction—On simultaneous changes in the forms of life throughout the world—On the affinities of extinct species to each other and to living species—On the state of development of ancient forms—On the succession of the same types within the same areas—Summary of preceding and present chapters

312-345

CHAPTER XI.
Geographical Distribution.

Present distribution cannot be accounted for by differences in physical conditions—Importance of barriers—Affinity of the productions of the same continent—Centres of creation—Means of dispersal, by changes of climate and of the level of the land, and by occasional means—Dispersal during the Glacial period co-extensive with the world

346-382

CHAPTER XII.
Geographical Distribution—continued.

Distribution of fresh-water productions—On the inhabitants of oceanic islands—Absence of Batrachians and of terrestrial Mammals—On the relation of the inhabitants of islands to those of the nearest mainland—On colonisation from the nearest source with subsequent modification—Summary of the last and present chapters

383-410

CHAPTER XIII.
Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs.

Classification, groups subordinate to groups—Natural system—Rules and difficulties in classification, explained on the theory of descent with modification—Classification of varieties—Descent always used in classification—Analogical or adaptive characters—Affinities, general, complex and radiating—Extinction separates and defines groups—Morphology, between members of the same class, between parts of the same individual—Embryology, laws of, explained by variations not supervening at an early age, and being inherited at a corresponding age—Rudimentary organs; their origin explained—Summary

411-458

CHAPTER XIV.
Recapitulation and Conclusion.

Recapitulation of the difficulties on the theory of Natural Selection—Recapitulation of the general and special circumstances in its favour—Causes of the general belief in the immutability of species—How far the theory of natural selection may be extended—Effects of its adoption on the study of Natural history—Concluding remarks

459-490

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1228

or

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2009/2009-h/2009-h.htm


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* Charles Darwin (vi.wikipedia)

http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

* Sách Nguồn Gốc Các Loài

Nguồn gốc các loài là tên rút gọn của cuốn sách Về nguồn gốc các loài qua con đường chọn lọc tự nhiên, hay sự bảo tồn những chủng ưu thế trong đấu tranh sinh tồn (On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life) của Charles Darwin, xuất bản năm 1859...

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http://bookaholicclub.com/?p=1931

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Les Neiges Du Kilimandjaro - Pascal Danel

Les neiges du Kilimandjaro

Il n'ira pas beaucoup plus loin
La nuit viendra bientôt
Il voit là-bas dans le lointain
Les neiges du Kilimandjaro

Elles te feront un blanc manteau
Où tu pourras dormir
Elles te feront un blanc manteau
Où tu pourras dormir, dormir, dormir

Dans son délire il lui revient
La fille qu'il aimait
Ils s'en allaient main dans la main
Il la revoit quand elle riait

Elles te feront un blanc manteau
Où tu pourras dormir
Elles te feront un blanc manteau
Où tu pourras dormir, dormir, dormir

Voilà sans doute à quoi il pense
Il va mourir bientôt
Elles n'ont jamais été si blanches
Les neiges du Kilimandjaro

Elles te feront un blanc manteau
Où tu pourras dormir
Elles te feront un blanc manteau
Où tu pourras dormir, dormir, bientôt ...

Pascal Danel


Chords:

e H7 e
G C G H7
e H7 e
G C H7


E Cism Fism H7
E Cism Fism H7
E Cism Fism
H7 E A E H7

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The snows of Kilimanjaro - Pascal Danel

He will not go much further
The night will soon come
He sees there, in the distance
The snows of Kilimanjaro

They will make you a white coat
Where you can sleep
They will make you a white coat
Where you can sleep, sleep, sleep

In his delirium he reviews
The girl he loved
They walk together hand in hand
He review her laughter

They will make you a white coat
Where you can sleep
They will make you a white coat
Where you can sleep, sleep, sleep

Without a doubt, she's the one whom he thinks now
He will die soon
Never have they been so white
The snows of Kilimanjaro

They will make you a white coat
Where you can sleep
They will make you a white coat
Where soon you can sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep now.

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A poem by Rumi

Hãy còn gần, trái tim tôi, với người chẳng lạ về ngươi;
Hãy vào trong chiếc bóng dịu dần của cái cây có những hoa tươi.
Nếu ngươi không tìm thấy sự quân bình thật sự,
bất kỳ ai cũng có thể đánh lừa ngươi;
Ai cũng có thể giả một thứ bằng rơm rạ,
và làm ngươi lấy nó thay vàng.
Đâu phải mọi đôi mắt đều có tầm nhìn,
Đâu phải mỗi biển đều đầy những ngọc trai.
Khi hoa hồng chết và khu vườn phai nhạt
ngươi sẽ không còn nghe khúc hát của sơn ca.
Kẻ được yêu thì đang sống; kẻ yêu là một thứ chết rồi.

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Stay close, my heart, to the one who knows your way;
Come into the shade of the tree that allays has
fresh flowers. (?)
If you don't find true balance,
anyone can deceive you;
Anyone can trick out of a thing of straw,
and make you take it for gold.
Not all eyes possess vision,
Not every sea is full of pearls.
When the rose is gone and the garden faded
you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.
The beloved is living; the lover a dead thing.

http://i-like-nice-life.blogspot.com/2010/02/poem-by-rumi.html

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Piano 01

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* Mozart, Rondo Alla Turca KV 331

* Chopin, Etude op.10 No.1, Allegro





* Lizst, Liebesträume No. 3 ("Dreams of Love")

* Pathetique Sonata 3rd Movement

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Before the D.

.


"This time tomorrow what will we know?
Well we still be here watching an in-flight movie show?"





"Then when the cops closed the fair,
I cut my long baby hair,
Stole me a dog-eared map
And called for you everywhere."




"An' I gaze back to the street,
The sidewalk and the sign,
And I'm one too many mornings
An' a thousand miles behind."

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