Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by EvolutionHodder and Stoughton, 1873 - Всего страниц: 259 |
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... butterfly and a lobster . But , as a matter of fact , the different members of the animal kingdom , from the highest to the lowest , are marvellously con- nected . Every animal has a something in common with all its fellows , much with ...
... butterfly and a lobster . But , as a matter of fact , the different members of the animal kingdom , from the highest to the lowest , are marvellously con- nected . Every animal has a something in common with all its fellows , much with ...
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... butterflies , which before offered no special difficulties , are , in reality , most intricately combined in a tangled web of affinities , leading by such gradual steps from the slightest and least stable variations to fixed races and ...
... butterflies , which before offered no special difficulties , are , in reality , most intricately combined in a tangled web of affinities , leading by such gradual steps from the slightest and least stable variations to fixed races and ...
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... butterflies the gaudier wings . Many of these differences can be ac- counted for by the continuous operation of two pro- cesses , which may be called ( 1 ) the Choice of Mates ; and ( 2 ) the Law of Battle , of which the first bears ...
... butterflies the gaudier wings . Many of these differences can be ac- counted for by the continuous operation of two pro- cesses , which may be called ( 1 ) the Choice of Mates ; and ( 2 ) the Law of Battle , of which the first bears ...
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... butterflies and caterpillars fall a prey . An im- mense number of insects have stings , and some sting- less ants ( of the genus Polyrachis ) are armed with long and sharp spines on the back , which must render them . unpalatable to ...
... butterflies and caterpillars fall a prey . An im- mense number of insects have stings , and some sting- less ants ( of the genus Polyrachis ) are armed with long and sharp spines on the back , which must render them . unpalatable to ...
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... butterflies , caterpillars , & c . , & c . No one can behold the upper surface of a flounder and overlook its resem- blance to the sandy bed of the sea on which it lives . There are now ( 1870 ) in the aquarium of the Zoological Society ...
... butterflies , caterpillars , & c . , & c . No one can behold the upper surface of a flounder and overlook its resem- blance to the sandy bed of the sea on which it lives . There are now ( 1870 ) in the aquarium of the Zoological Society ...
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Стр. 125 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 87 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world.
Стр. 130 - When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a long history...
Стр. 108 - Nothing at first can appear more difficult to believe than that the more complex organs and instincts should have been perfected, not by means superior to, though analogous with human reason, but by the accumulation of innumerable slight variations, each good for the individual possessor.
Стр. 128 - To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. "When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
Стр. 84 - I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good : Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Стр. 143 - Von Baer found that in its earliest stage, every organism has the greatest number of characters in common with all other organisms in their earliest stages ; that at a stage somewhat later, its structure is like the structures displayed at corresponding phases by a less extensive multitude of organisms ; that at each subsequent stage, traits are acquired which successively distinguish the developing embryo from groups of embryos that it previously resembled — thus step by step diminishing the...
Стр. 112 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Стр. 181 - ... each annually scattering its seeds by the thousand ; what war between insect and insect — between insects, snails, and other animals with birds and beasts of prey — all striving to increase...
Стр. 244 - We hardly use the word ought in a metaphorical sense when we say hounds ought to hunt, pointers to point, and retrievers to retrieve their game.