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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... opinion in regard to this former Essay , induced us to present it to the public in a separate form in order that it might more readily reach the popular mind . Its wide circulation among those who were not likely to see the Church ...
... opinion in regard to this former Essay , induced us to present it to the public in a separate form in order that it might more readily reach the popular mind . Its wide circulation among those who were not likely to see the Church ...
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... opinion , on general subjects , of men distinguished in some partic- ular branch of practical Science . Yet there is no class of men whose abstract speculations are to be received with more distrust , than those who are the most ...
... opinion , on general subjects , of men distinguished in some partic- ular branch of practical Science . Yet there is no class of men whose abstract speculations are to be received with more distrust , than those who are the most ...
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... opinion . He thinks he can explain how physical laws and physical agents have brought into existence all the successive forms of organic life , from its first beginning , and how they have , with discrim- inating wisdom , adapted them ...
... opinion . He thinks he can explain how physical laws and physical agents have brought into existence all the successive forms of organic life , from its first beginning , and how they have , with discrim- inating wisdom , adapted them ...
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... opinion of Mr. Huxley , that Man and the Quadrumana ought to be placed in the same Order of Pri- mates . Nor is there any necessity for doing so . This , or any other classification of Man's body in the Animal King- dom , can have no ...
... opinion of Mr. Huxley , that Man and the Quadrumana ought to be placed in the same Order of Pri- mates . Nor is there any necessity for doing so . This , or any other classification of Man's body in the Animal King- dom , can have no ...
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... opinion held by many eminent naturalists ; and the only evidence he brings in proof of it , is his usual catholicon , viz . , that the hand of other members of the monkey tribe , especially of the marmoset , whose thumb , he says , is a ...
... opinion held by many eminent naturalists ; and the only evidence he brings in proof of it , is his usual catholicon , viz . , that the hand of other members of the monkey tribe , especially of the marmoset , whose thumb , he says , is a ...
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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?