Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by EvolutionHodder and Stoughton, 1873 - Всего страниц: 259 |
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... hand with the sun , distant by millions of miles ; and on the other with the eye of the trilobite , distant by millions of years . There- fore ( to quote Baden Powell ) the unity of science is the reflection of the unity of nature , and ...
... hand with the sun , distant by millions of miles ; and on the other with the eye of the trilobite , distant by millions of years . There- fore ( to quote Baden Powell ) the unity of science is the reflection of the unity of nature , and ...
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... hand neighbour ; and we shall have in such a tilted row a rough representation of the sedimentary strata , as they are passed over when we journey by the Great Western Railway from London into Cornwall or South Wales . • When we ...
... hand neighbour ; and we shall have in such a tilted row a rough representation of the sedimentary strata , as they are passed over when we journey by the Great Western Railway from London into Cornwall or South Wales . • When we ...
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... hand , were the same islands with the neighbouring seas lifted 600 feet higher , the whole of the German Ocean , the Irish Sea , and the English Channel , would become dry land , so that the British Isles would all be united together ...
... hand , were the same islands with the neighbouring seas lifted 600 feet higher , the whole of the German Ocean , the Irish Sea , and the English Channel , would become dry land , so that the British Isles would all be united together ...
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... hand , that a true rule or law embraces all apparent exceptions ; and that , therefore , it cannot have been Nature's intention to make sharply- defined species , with limits never to be transgressed . In the third place , a grand fact ...
... hand , that a true rule or law embraces all apparent exceptions ; and that , therefore , it cannot have been Nature's intention to make sharply- defined species , with limits never to be transgressed . In the third place , a grand fact ...
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... anonymous author of the Vestiges of Creation . It will not be necessary to consider the forms - always inadequate and sometimes grotesque— 1 Darwin's Origin of Species : Historical Sketch . which the theory took in the hands of its earlier.
... anonymous author of the Vestiges of Creation . It will not be necessary to consider the forms - always inadequate and sometimes grotesque— 1 Darwin's Origin of Species : Historical Sketch . which the theory took in the hands of its earlier.
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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.