Questão 23 (Português e Inglês) da 2ª fase do IME 2020

Fellow of the Royal, Geological, Linnæan, etc. societies; Author of Journal of researches during H. M. S. Beagle’s Voyage round the world. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1859.

Introduction

________ (21) ________ on board H.M.S. 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much ________ (22) ________ with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to ________ (23) ________ some light on the origin of species–that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. ________ (24) ________ my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a ________ (25) ________ of the conclusions, which ________ (26) ________ seemed to me probable: from that period to the present day I ________ (27) ________ the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been ________ (28) ________ in coming to a decision.

My work is now nearly finished; but ________ (29) ________ it will take me two or three more years to complete it, and as my health is far from strong, ________ (30) ________ to publish this Abstract.