Studies in Science and ReligionW. F. Draper, 1882 - Всего страниц: 390 |
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... considers as underlying the inductive process are the reality , " first , of the distinction of substance and attribute ... consider more critically and fully the degree of validity belonging to these various assumptions , and their ...
... considers as underlying the inductive process are the reality , " first , of the distinction of substance and attribute ... consider more critically and fully the degree of validity belonging to these various assumptions , and their ...
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... Consider now another instance . It is not exaggeration to affirm that our present material civilization is built upon the belief , that iron will continue to exhibit its well - known attributes of hardness , tenacity , and non ...
... Consider now another instance . It is not exaggeration to affirm that our present material civilization is built upon the belief , that iron will continue to exhibit its well - known attributes of hardness , tenacity , and non ...
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... considering the question of our ability to discover final causes in the phenomena about us . As this subject is still obscured by an indefinite use of language , it will facilitate matters to draw what we consider to be the real ...
... considering the question of our ability to discover final causes in the phenomena about us . As this subject is still obscured by an indefinite use of language , it will facilitate matters to draw what we consider to be the real ...
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... consider the rapidity with which innumerable other organisms tend to in- crease , we shall have before us a faint idea of the power that is here brought into the equation . We may safely assume that plants produce every year a million ...
... consider the rapidity with which innumerable other organisms tend to in- crease , we shall have before us a faint idea of the power that is here brought into the equation . We may safely assume that plants produce every year a million ...
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... consider the evidence adduced as sufficient to establish the fact of a marked periodic acceleration in the operation of the forces of organic development . For the terra incognita into which he can flee is still sufficiently large . He ...
... consider the evidence adduced as sufficient to establish the fact of a marked periodic acceleration in the operation of the forces of organic development . For the terra incognita into which he can flee is still sufficiently large . He ...
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Стр. 252 - For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek : for the same Lord over all, is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.
Стр. 171 - A chain composed of an infinite number of links can no more support itself than a chain composed of a finite number of links.
Стр. 40 - It is a truly wonderful fact — the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity — that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in groups, subordinate to groups, in the manner which we everywhere behold...
Стр. 152 - But as my conclusions have lately been much misrepresented, and it has been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction — the following words: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not thé exclusive means of modification.
Стр. 374 - Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and...
Стр. 188 - The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together — the whole of the contingencies of every description, which, being realized, the consequent invariably follows.
Стр. 84 - So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And- these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
Стр. 151 - Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life.
Стр. 161 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Стр. 151 - Strictly speaking, therefore, Mr. Darwin's theory is not a theory on the Origin of Species at all, but only a theory on the causes which lead to the relative success or failure of such new Forms as may be born into the world.