Analysis of Darwin, Huxley and Lyell, Being a Critical Examination of the Views of These Authors in Regard to the Origin and Antiquitity of ManTuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1866 - 94 стор. |
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... deposited in the Cambrian strata the first token of organic life . Such is the starting point to which Mr. Darwin has confined himself , by his own terms ; and according to his direct state- ments , this is the beginning and end of the ...
... deposited in the Cambrian strata the first token of organic life . Such is the starting point to which Mr. Darwin has confined himself , by his own terms ; and according to his direct state- ments , this is the beginning and end of the ...
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... deposits of peat occur in hollows , in the northern drift formation , which constitutes the most superficial matter ... deposit no very re- mote antiquity ; but our author draws his first inference in favor of the immense antiquity of a ...
... deposits of peat occur in hollows , in the northern drift formation , which constitutes the most superficial matter ... deposit no very re- mote antiquity ; but our author draws his first inference in favor of the immense antiquity of a ...
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... deposit in " hollows , " that no reliable indica- tion of age can be derived from the quantity or depth of this deposit . Many facts corroborative of this statement , might be produced from the previous works of Sir Charles Lyell , and ...
... deposit in " hollows , " that no reliable indica- tion of age can be derived from the quantity or depth of this deposit . Many facts corroborative of this statement , might be produced from the previous works of Sir Charles Lyell , and ...
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... deposit of such thickness as would denote , according to Lyell's estimate , an antiquity greater than that assigned to Adam . In the absence of this record , had he found , as he doubtless might , some relic of human art in the soil ...
... deposit of such thickness as would denote , according to Lyell's estimate , an antiquity greater than that assigned to Adam . In the absence of this record , had he found , as he doubtless might , some relic of human art in the soil ...
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... deposit or flattened cone at its mouth . This cone has an inclination of four degrees , corresponding to the bed of the torrent ; its radius is 900 Swiss feet , and its transverse diameter is 1,000 feet at its central part , where the ...
... deposit or flattened cone at its mouth . This cone has an inclination of four degrees , corresponding to the bed of the torrent ; its radius is 900 Swiss feet , and its transverse diameter is 1,000 feet at its central part , where the ...
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Сторінка 10 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Сторінка 30 - It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.
Сторінка 30 - Whence but from Heaven could men unskill'd in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths ? or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie ? Unask'd their pains, ungrateful their advice, Starving their gain, and martyrdom their price.
Сторінка 21 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Сторінка 14 - ... with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing slowly in density, so as to separate into layers of different densities and thicknesses, placed at different distances from each other, and with the surfaces of each layer slowly changing in form. Further, we must suppose that there is a power, represented by natural selection...
Сторінка 12 - It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving, and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Сторінка 36 - Whence our race has come; what are the limits of our power over nature, and of nature's power over us; to what goal we are tending; are the problems which present themselves anew and with undiminished interest to every man born into the world.
Сторінка 60 - At the same time, no one is more strongly convinced than I am of the vastness of the gulf between civilized man and the brutes ; or is more certain that, whether from them or not, he is assuredly not of them.
Сторінка 11 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
Сторінка 42 - ... remain then but one order for comparison, that of the Apes (using that word in its broadest sense), and the question for discussion would narrow itself to this — is Man so different from any of these Apes that he must form an order by himself? Or does he differ less from them than they differ from one another, and hence must take his place in the same order with them?