Our Heredity from God: Consisting of Lectures on EvolutionAppleton, 1887 - Всего страниц: 423 |
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... accepted impression : " The world was fitted up for man's occupancy , with adequate means , inherent or supplemented , to meet all his needs . " I shall be seriously disappointed if I do not assist in defining the positive.
... accepted impression : " The world was fitted up for man's occupancy , with adequate means , inherent or supplemented , to meet all his needs . " I shall be seriously disappointed if I do not assist in defining the positive.
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... mean by species is only a strong tendency in a group in a certain direction , and accumulation of life power to do and be a certain thing . It is not easy to overcome this ; and if overcome , the tendency is to sterility of the issue ...
... mean by species is only a strong tendency in a group in a certain direction , and accumulation of life power to do and be a certain thing . It is not easy to overcome this ; and if overcome , the tendency is to sterility of the issue ...
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... mean the rap- idly increasing power of the average mind to examine facts and generalize truths . 1. Is it probable that a creator of unlimited power would have created in such a way that not one of his creatures for one moment should be ...
... mean the rap- idly increasing power of the average mind to examine facts and generalize truths . 1. Is it probable that a creator of unlimited power would have created in such a way that not one of his creatures for one moment should be ...
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... mean the won- derful and unexpected ; but the miraculous as a break in unity , an interruption of natural law , an amendment to the order of the universe , it aims to demonstrate as , at least , quite superfluous and unnecessary ...
... mean the won- derful and unexpected ; but the miraculous as a break in unity , an interruption of natural law , an amendment to the order of the universe , it aims to demonstrate as , at least , quite superfluous and unnecessary ...
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... 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 without . I ...
... 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 without . I ...
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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.