 | 1860 - Страниц: 890
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable to our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated ; but I may remark, that several facts make me suspect that ANY sensitive nerve may... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - Страниц: 470
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated ; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - Страниц: 472
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated ; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 524
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated ; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that nerves sensitive to touch... | |
 | James McCosh - 1871 - Страниц: 410
...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." We have seen (supra, p. 80) that he allows : " How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated." But if Natural Selection cannot explain the origin of life, the origin of nerve-force... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - Страниц: 504
...insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to bo sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated ; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1883 - Страниц: 494
...be formed by natuiil selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be...hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated ; bat I may remark that, as •xne of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are... | |
 | 1884 - Страниц: 828
...Science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life " (p. 421). " How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated " (p. i44). The patent ambiguity, transparent scepticism, and naked indifference of these passages... | |
 | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - 1885 - Страниц: 430
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can be hardly considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated ; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may... | |
 | 1885 - Страниц: 420
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can be hardly considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may... | |
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... animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve... 
