Our Heredity from God: Consisting of Lectures on EvolutionAppleton, 1887 - Всего страниц: 423 |
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... adaptation of means to ends ; and , while there is no reason for believing in a Designer above , and outside of Nature , there can be no conception of Nature apart from design . The design is persistent in Nature , and not imposed from ...
... adaptation of means to ends ; and , while there is no reason for believing in a Designer above , and outside of Nature , there can be no conception of Nature apart from design . The design is persistent in Nature , and not imposed from ...
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... adapt themselves to slightly warmer conditions than to slightly colder . Is this an instance of creative design , or of natural adaptation ? But there are facts of a similar sort not so easily ex- plained . There are plants on the Andes ...
... adapt themselves to slightly warmer conditions than to slightly colder . Is this an instance of creative design , or of natural adaptation ? But there are facts of a similar sort not so easily ex- plained . There are plants on the Andes ...
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... adaptation ; others retained without adaptation , or badly adapted ; and still others , either not quite given up , or left ... adapt them for swimming . The head retains the bones of a land ani- mal's skull , as they are disposed in the ...
... adaptation ; others retained without adaptation , or badly adapted ; and still others , either not quite given up , or left ... adapt them for swimming . The head retains the bones of a land ani- mal's skull , as they are disposed in the ...
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... adaptation to a biped life of ethical purposes . Rudimentary organs are not at all of rare occurrence in both plants and animals , and their nature is beyond ques- tion . Sightless animals have rudimentary eyes . Did the Creator put in ...
... adaptation to a biped life of ethical purposes . Rudimentary organs are not at all of rare occurrence in both plants and animals , and their nature is beyond ques- tion . Sightless animals have rudimentary eyes . Did the Creator put in ...
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... adaptation of organs to environments . Many creatures of the lower ocean depths are possessed of sightless organs , showing that they have been driven to adapt themselves to deeper and darker water . But energy has gone to construct ...
... adaptation of organs to environments . Many creatures of the lower ocean depths are possessed of sightless organs , showing that they have been driven to adapt themselves to deeper and darker water . But energy has gone to construct ...
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Our Heredity from God: Consisting of Lectures on Evolution Edward Payson Powell Полный просмотр - 1887 |
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Стр. 391 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Стр. 392 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Стр. 391 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Стр. 391 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Стр. 143 - God of the Granite and the Rose ! Soul of the Sparrow and the Bee ! The mighty tide of Being flows Through countless channels, Lord, from Thee. It leaps to life in grass and flowers, Through every grade of being runs, While from Creation's radiant towers Its glory flames in Stars and Suns.