Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by EvolutionHodder and Stoughton, 1873 - Всего страниц: 259 |
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... teeth are contrived to eat with , and not for the purpose of aching . : A full discussion of the subject in this place is not intended . It is sufficient if it is made to appear that the attempt to illustrate the Wisdom and Beneficence ...
... teeth are contrived to eat with , and not for the purpose of aching . : A full discussion of the subject in this place is not intended . It is sufficient if it is made to appear that the attempt to illustrate the Wisdom and Beneficence ...
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... teeth of fish , and occasionally some remains of leopards , bears , hogs , & c . Not far from the same place , or at Southend , as I return to London by steamboat , I find the soil to be clay containing shells , with remains of ...
... teeth of fish , and occasionally some remains of leopards , bears , hogs , & c . Not far from the same place , or at Southend , as I return to London by steamboat , I find the soil to be clay containing shells , with remains of ...
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... teeth ; but the young foetal whale , before birth , possesses teeth which never come to anything . Other whales , however , have well- developed teeth in both jaws . The horse has only one finger in his fore foot , and only one toe in ...
... teeth ; but the young foetal whale , before birth , possesses teeth which never come to anything . Other whales , however , have well- developed teeth in both jaws . The horse has only one finger in his fore foot , and only one toe in ...
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... teeth and great pieces of tesselated armour are found , exactly like those of the living sloth and armadillo , except in size . In Europe , Asia , and Africa , the large mammals are at present rhinoceroses , hippopotamuses , elephants ...
... teeth and great pieces of tesselated armour are found , exactly like those of the living sloth and armadillo , except in size . In Europe , Asia , and Africa , the large mammals are at present rhinoceroses , hippopotamuses , elephants ...
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... teeth , and this relation between hair and teeth seems to be general . With man several striking cases have been recorded of inherited baldness with inherited deficiency of the teeth , either complete or partial ; and in those rare ...
... teeth , and this relation between hair and teeth seems to be general . With man several striking cases have been recorded of inherited baldness with inherited deficiency of the teeth , either complete or partial ; and in those rare ...
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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.