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... What is Darwinism? - Сторінка 58автори: Charles Hodge - 1874 - 178 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| 1861 - 716 стор.
...Tet he screws Up his courage to face the difficulty. Here ia e whole T>roeess : the whole process : If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument,...to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing... | |
| 1861 - 1148 стор.
...the long-continued efforts of the highest human intellect ; and we naturally infer that the eye lias been formed by a somewhat analogous process. But may...right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual pmcers like those of man f " He then supposes the formation of this delicate complex organ to be the... | |
| 1860 - 890 стор.
...tlie Ions-continued efforts of the highest human intellects ; and we naturally (?) infer that tlie eye has been formed by a somewhat analogous process. But may not this inference be presumptuous ? [It may indeed !] Have we any right to assume that tlie Creator works by intellectual powers like... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 стор.
...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...to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing... | |
| 1861 - 842 стор.
...structure and hahits, with larger and laiger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." "If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument,...to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 стор.
...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...to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and men suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing... | |
| Henry A. DuBois - 1866 - 112 стор.
...It is as follows : — " It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope. — — If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument,...to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing... | |
| 1866 - 694 стор.
...It is as follows : — " It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope. — — If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument,...to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing... | |
| Lionel Smith Beale - 1872 - 376 стор.
..." has been perfected by the long-continued efforts of the highest human intellect " ; and, he says, we " naturally infer (!) that the eye has been formed by a somewhat anala4s ENDOWMENTS OF BIOPLASTS gous process." But natural inferences and analogical arguments of this... | |
| William Thomas Thornton - 1873 - 322 стор.
...He doubts whether the inference implied may not be ' presumptuous.' He apprehends that we have no ' right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of a man.' Truly, of all suggested modes of marking respect for creative power, that of assuming it to... | |
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