On the Genesis of SpeciesMacmillan, 1871 - Всего страниц: 342 |
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... side of Lower Jaw of Pleurodont Lizard ( from Professor Owen's " Odontography " ) ... Solenoden ( from Berlin Trans . ) 167 168 Tarsal Bones of Galago and Cheirogaleus ( from Proc . Zool . Soc . ) ... 179 Squilla ... Parts of the ...
... side of Lower Jaw of Pleurodont Lizard ( from Professor Owen's " Odontography " ) ... Solenoden ( from Berlin Trans . ) 167 168 Tarsal Bones of Galago and Cheirogaleus ( from Proc . Zool . Soc . ) ... 179 Squilla ... Parts of the ...
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... sides , we may expect the development of some tertium quid — the resultant of forces coming from different quarters , and not coinciding in direction with any one of them . As error is almost always partial truth , and so consists in ...
... sides , we may expect the development of some tertium quid — the resultant of forces coming from different quarters , and not coinciding in direction with any one of them . As error is almost always partial truth , and so consists in ...
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... side is very variable in colour , so that out of fifty specimens no two can be found exactly alike , but every one ... side a few oblique lines , which serve to indicate the lateral veins of a leaf . These marks are more clearly seen on ...
... side is very variable in colour , so that out of fifty specimens no two can be found exactly alike , but every one ... side a few oblique lines , which serve to indicate the lateral veins of a leaf . These marks are more clearly seen on ...
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... side , come to be placed , in the adult , both on the same side of the head . If this condition had appeared at once , if in the hypothetically fortunate common ancestor of these fishes an eye had suddenly become thus transferred , then ...
... side , come to be placed , in the adult , both on the same side of the head . If this condition had appeared at once , if in the hypothetically fortunate common ancestor of these fishes an eye had suddenly become thus transferred , then ...
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... side of the mouth . They thus form two longitudinal series , each plate of which is placed transversely to the long axis of the body , and all are very close together . On depressing the lower lip the free outer edges of these plates ...
... side of the mouth . They thus form two longitudinal series , each plate of which is placed transversely to the long axis of the body , and all are very close together . On depressing the lower lip the free outer edges of these plates ...
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5th edition action of Natural acts admit affinity amongst Animals and Plants annelids appear assertion believe Bird of Paradise birds body bones brought forward butterflies cause Cetacea chapter colour complete conceivable conception contended creation creatures Darwin Darwinian Darwinian theory degree Descent difficulty distinct evidence evolution evolved example existence explain external facts favour fishes force fortuitous gemmules harmony Herbert Spencer homology hypothesis Ibid ICHTHYOSAURUS individual innate power inorganic insects instances internal intuitions kind laws less limbs machairodus Malay Archipelago mammals manifestation marsupial matter minute mode modifications moral Natural Selection objections observed organic forms Origin of Species Pangenesis peculiar perissodactyle phenomena physical science Plants under Domestication PLESIOSAURUS possessed present preserved priori probable produced Professor Huxley pterodactyles race reason regard remarkable reptiles resemblance result says seems serial homology Silurian similar structure supposed tend tendency theism theory of Natural tion Ungulata vertebrate Wallace wing
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Стр. 314 - The teleological and the mechanical views of nature are not, necessarily, mutually exclusive. On the contrary, the more purely a mechanist the speculator is, the more firmly does he assume a primordial molecular arrangement of which all the phenomena of the universe...
Стр. 282 - Thus the consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested to us through all phenomena, has been growing ever clearer ; and must eventually be freed from its imperfections. The certainty that on the one hand such a Power exists, while on the other hand its nature transcends intuition and is beyond imagination, is the certainty towards which intelligence has from the first been progressing.
Стр. 212 - In the future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.
Стр. 328 - ... to capture or overcome both. Though less capable than most other animals of living on the herbs and the fruits that unaided nature supplies, this wonderful faculty taught him to govern and direct nature to his own benefit, and make her produce food for him when and where he pleased. From...
Стр. 67 - The justice of these remarks cannot I think be disputed. If, for instance, a bird of some kind could procure its food more easily by having its beak curved, and if one were born with its beak strongly curved, and which consequently flourished, nevertheless there would be a very poor chance of this one individual perpetuating its kind to the exclusion of the common form; but there can hardly be...
Стр. 228 - I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility.
Стр. 218 - I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Стр. 17 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 111 - English greyhounds of the best breed, to hunt the hares which abound in that country. The great platform which is the scene of sport is at an elevation of about...
Стр. 325 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.