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... , Mr. Whiteaves , has done very much to give to these collections a scientific value by careful and accurate arrangement . We have not specially cultivated Canadian Geology , because we No. 1. ] 5 THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS .
... , Mr. Whiteaves , has done very much to give to these collections a scientific value by careful and accurate arrangement . We have not specially cultivated Canadian Geology , because we No. 1. ] 5 THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS .
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... give to the public . I have already referred to the subject of Entomology as applied to practical purposes ; and the natural history of our spiders , millepedes , and worms , is almost an untrodden field , while our microscopists have a ...
... give to the public . I have already referred to the subject of Entomology as applied to practical purposes ; and the natural history of our spiders , millepedes , and worms , is almost an untrodden field , while our microscopists have a ...
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... gives many arguments and quotations , especially in the chapter on " Theology and Evo- lution , " to show that neither " Darwinism " nor any other deriva- tive theory necessarily conflicts in the least degree with the most orthodox ...
... gives many arguments and quotations , especially in the chapter on " Theology and Evo- lution , " to show that neither " Darwinism " nor any other deriva- tive theory necessarily conflicts in the least degree with the most orthodox ...
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... give a concise statement of Darwin's own theory , we suffer from an " embarras de richesses ; " for not only is his own work one long presentation of it in many different aspects , but each later writer upon the subject has given his ...
... give a concise statement of Darwin's own theory , we suffer from an " embarras de richesses ; " for not only is his own work one long presentation of it in many different aspects , but each later writer upon the subject has given his ...
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... gives successive variations ; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him " ( p . 40 ) . We italicise man because we are convinced that the grand fallacy in Darwin's theory lies just here , in the assumption that the selection ...
... gives successive variations ; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him " ( p . 40 ) . We italicise man because we are convinced that the grand fallacy in Darwin's theory lies just here , in the assumption that the selection ...
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Стр. 143 - 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. 151 - But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
Стр. 151 - Abiogenesis ever has taken place in the past or ever will take place in the future. With organic chemistry, molecular physics, and physiology yet in their infancy, and every day making prodigious strides, I think it would be the height of presumption for any man to say that the conditions under which matter assumes the properties we call " vital " may not, some day, be artificially brought together.
Стр. 143 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 141 - organic cells," or "protoplasm." But science brings a vast mass of inductive evidence against this hypothesis of spontaneous generation, as you have heard from my predecessor in the Presidential chair. Careful enough scrutiny has, in every case up to the present day, discovered life as antecedent to life. Dead matter cannot become living without coming under the influence of matter previously alive. This seems to me as sure a teaching of science as the law of gravitation.
Стр. 429 - Logan attempted a new explanation of the stratigraphy of the region; declaring at the same time that, "from the physical structure alone, no person would suspect the break which must exist in the neighborhood of Quebec ; and without the evidence of the fossils every one would be authorized to deny it." (Ibid., page 218.) The typical Potsdam sandstone of the New York system, as seen in the Ottawa basin in northern New York and the adjacent parts of Canada, affords but a very meagre fauna, including...
Стр. 429 - River group, or forming part of a series of strata which he is inclined to rank as a distinct group above the Hudson River proper. -It would be quite superfluous for me to add one word in support of the opinion of the most able stratigraphical geologist of the American continent" Paleontology and stratigraphy here came into conflict, and it was not till in 1860, when Mr.
Стр. 133 - ... with which a star approaches to or recedes from the earth. The principle is, first to identify, if possible, one or more of the lines in the spectrum of the star, with a line or lines in the spectrum of sodium, or some other terrestrial substance, and then (by observing the star and the artificial light simultaneously by the same spectroscope) to find the difference, if any, between their refrangibilities. From this difference of refrangibility the ratio of the periods of the two lights is calculated,...
Стр. 128 - The discovery by Fraunhofer of a coincidence between his double dark line D of the solar spectrum and a double bright line which he observed in the spectra of ordinary artificial flames. (2) A very rigorous experimental test of this coincidence by Prof.