What is Darwinism?Scribner, Armstrong,, 1874 - 178 стор. |
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... vary more or less within narrow limits , from their parent and from each other . Some of these variations are indifferent , some dete- riorations , some improvements , that is , they are such as enable the plant or animal to exercise ...
... vary more or less within narrow limits , from their parent and from each other . Some of these variations are indifferent , some dete- riorations , some improvements , that is , they are such as enable the plant or animal to exercise ...
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... vary , and that they are transmitted by inheritance . A mas- tiff has imparted courage to a greyhound , and a greyhound has transmitted to a shepherd - dog a disposition to hunt hares . Among sporting dogs , the young of the pointer or ...
... vary , and that they are transmitted by inheritance . A mas- tiff has imparted courage to a greyhound , and a greyhound has transmitted to a shepherd - dog a disposition to hunt hares . Among sporting dogs , the young of the pointer or ...
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... vary ever so little , then I can see no difficulty in natural selection pre- serving and continually accumulating varia- tions of instinct to any extent that was profita- ble . It is thus , as I believe , that all the most complex and ...
... vary ever so little , then I can see no difficulty in natural selection pre- serving and continually accumulating varia- tions of instinct to any extent that was profita- ble . It is thus , as I believe , that all the most complex and ...
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... vary , in order that the fancier might make his grotesque pouter and fan - tail breeds ? Did He cause the frame and mental qualities of the dog to vary , in order that a breed might be formed of indomitable ferocity , with jaws fitted ...
... vary , in order that the fancier might make his grotesque pouter and fan - tail breeds ? Did He cause the frame and mental qualities of the dog to vary , in order that a breed might be formed of indomitable ferocity , with jaws fitted ...
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... vary incessantly ; of these variations the few meet with surrounding conditions which suit them , and thrive ; the many are unsuited , and become extinguished . " " For the teleol- ogist an organism exists , because it was made for the ...
... vary incessantly ; of these variations the few meet with surrounding conditions which suit them , and thrive ; the many are unsuited , and become extinguished . " " For the teleol- ogist an organism exists , because it was made for the ...
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Сторінка 31 - I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection.
Сторінка 3 - God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
Сторінка 46 - If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith ? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
Сторінка 37 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Сторінка 54 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Сторінка 136 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Сторінка 58 - It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope. We know that this instrument has been perfected by the long-continued efforts of the highest human intellects ; and we naturally infer that the eye has been formed by a somewhat analogous process. But may not this inference be presumptuous? Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man...
Сторінка 31 - Owing to this struggle, variations, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if they be in any degree profitable to the individuals of a species, in their infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to their physical conditions of life, will tend to the preservation of such individuals, and will generally be inherited by the offspring.
Сторінка 46 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.