Our Heredity from God: Consisting of Lectures on EvolutionAppleton, 1887 - Всего страниц: 423 |
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... energy , and sentience . Religion , by the same au- thority , is a result of mind adjusted and re - adjusted to widening environments of knowledge ; beginning , as the outlook of a primitive creature , with meager powers of in ...
... energy , and sentience . Religion , by the same au- thority , is a result of mind adjusted and re - adjusted to widening environments of knowledge ; beginning , as the outlook of a primitive creature , with meager powers of in ...
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... energy is bent toward brain - case and brain ; and toward the deli- cate structure , so full of power and tenderness , the hand . It balances the brain - case well on the end of the spinal col- umn ; and by the time gestation ends it is ...
... energy is bent toward brain - case and brain ; and toward the deli- cate structure , so full of power and tenderness , the hand . It balances the brain - case well on the end of the spinal col- umn ; and by the time gestation ends it is ...
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... Energy is withdrawn from useless aims to be applied elsewhere . We understand very well the nature of this tendency , for if we wish to re- tain in ourselves any function or power , we must exercise to that end . Any power of body or ...
... Energy is withdrawn from useless aims to be applied elsewhere . We understand very well the nature of this tendency , for if we wish to re- tain in ourselves any function or power , we must exercise to that end . Any power of body or ...
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... energy is withdrawn from one part of a structure , additional energy will be applied to some other part ; so we find the ostrich and cassowary pos- sessed of extraordinary legs , as they lose , or abbreviate , their wings . Reverse the ...
... energy is withdrawn from one part of a structure , additional energy will be applied to some other part ; so we find the ostrich and cassowary pos- sessed of extraordinary legs , as they lose , or abbreviate , their wings . Reverse the ...
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... streets , and keeping domesticated creatures , from whom they obtain a supply of favorite food ! The growth of a thick coat of wool or hair is qualified by a proportionate withdrawal of energy from the brain . DEGENERATION . 85.
... streets , and keeping domesticated creatures , from whom they obtain a supply of favorite food ! The growth of a thick coat of wool or hair is qualified by a proportionate withdrawal of energy from the brain . DEGENERATION . 85.
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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.