 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - Страниц: 668
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them ! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a misnomer ; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 510
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them ! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a misnomer ; but whoever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - 1872 - Страниц: 578
...be disposed to disown it as an active power or Deity, is uncertain. Truly has the author confessed " in the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term." One thing, however, is apparent, and that is that Mr. Darwin now materially limits the influence of... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1874 - Страниц: 190
...selection is a false term ; but " who ever objected to chemists, speaking of the elective affinities of various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly...elect the base with which it in preference combines." (p. 93) We have here an affirmation and a negation. It is affirmed that natural selection is the operation... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1874 - Страниц: 190
...of gravity as ruling the movements of the planet?" He admits that in the literal sense of the words, natural selection is a false term ; but " who ever...to chemists, speaking of the elective affinities of various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it in preference... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - Страниц: 504
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural...various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly bo said to elect the base with which it in preference combines. It has been said that I speak of natural... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1879 - Страниц: 436
...accurate expression when a more accurate one is ready to his hand. Hence, when Mr. Darwin continues, " Who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective...cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it by preference combines," he is beside the mark. Chemists do not speak of " elective affinities" in... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1879 - Страниц: 402
...same place as we did when we started, as regards any knowledge of what is the " origin of species." " In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term." Then why use it when another, and, by Mr. Darwin's own admission, a " more accurate " one is to hand... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1882 - Страниц: 494
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural...to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of tho various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - Страниц: 396
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them ! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural...affinities of the various elements ? — and yet an acid can not strictly be said to elect the base with which it in preference combines. It has been said that... | |
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In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term ; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it... 
