Our Heredity from God: Consisting of Lectures on EvolutionAppleton, 1887 - Всего страниц: 423 |
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... Human evolution , in its mani- fold relations , is based on the antecedent advance of struct- ural forms and functions . These , leading ever onward and upward , bring us to the threshold of that more mag- nificent but still progressive ...
... Human evolution , in its mani- fold relations , is based on the antecedent advance of struct- ural forms and functions . These , leading ever onward and upward , bring us to the threshold of that more mag- nificent but still progressive ...
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... human- ity , of honor , of faith , of hope . Creation is the theology of a great despair , ringing through all time , a terrible failure with but slight compensation , involving a religion nihilistic at the core . LECTURE II . THE UNITY ...
... human- ity , of honor , of faith , of hope . Creation is the theology of a great despair , ringing through all time , a terrible failure with but slight compensation , involving a religion nihilistic at the core . LECTURE II . THE UNITY ...
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Consisting of Lectures on Evolution Edward Payson Powell. lems of the human brain , and cipher the lesson of our prede- cessors . We dig the plants out as coal to drive our engines and give us mastery over the physical forces about us ...
Consisting of Lectures on Evolution Edward Payson Powell. lems of the human brain , and cipher the lesson of our prede- cessors . We dig the plants out as coal to drive our engines and give us mastery over the physical forces about us ...
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... human being . Time will , no doubt , uncover to us vastly more of these tran- sitionary stages of evolution . Missing links , both fossil and living , are constantly being found , and more may be expected at any hour . This very day ...
... human being . Time will , no doubt , uncover to us vastly more of these tran- sitionary stages of evolution . Missing links , both fossil and living , are constantly being found , and more may be expected at any hour . This very day ...
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... human fam- ily , mutually dependent . But none of these things occur in any strata lower than a few hundred feet ; in time , a few hundred thousand years ago . Such is the story . It is in- finitely more wonderful and more divine than ...
... human fam- ily , mutually dependent . But none of these things occur in any strata lower than a few hundred feet ; in time , a few hundred thousand years ago . Such is the story . It is in- finitely more wonderful and more divine than ...
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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.