Scientific Sophisms: A Review of Current Theories Concerning Atoms, Apes and MenHodder and Stoughton, 1881 - Всего страниц: 310 |
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... things . " ANIMA MUNDI . The Inorganic World . Phenomena of Crystallization . Prof. Tyndall's Fallacy ; Pyramid builders : Architect : Controlling Power . Prof. Tyndall's belief that " The formation of a plant or an animal Is a purely ...
... things . " ANIMA MUNDI . The Inorganic World . Phenomena of Crystallization . Prof. Tyndall's Fallacy ; Pyramid builders : Architect : Controlling Power . Prof. Tyndall's belief that " The formation of a plant or an animal Is a purely ...
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... things pre- sent have no parallel in the mineral world . " Du Bois Reymond's : - " It is futile to attempt by chemistry to bridge the chasm between the living and the not - living . " No machine can grow . No machine can produce ...
... things pre- sent have no parallel in the mineral world . " Du Bois Reymond's : - " It is futile to attempt by chemistry to bridge the chasm between the living and the not - living . " No machine can grow . No machine can produce ...
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... things . " " Thinker of God's thoughts after Him . " What is the Origin of Mind ? The genesis of THOUGHT . VOLITION . " Thaumaturgic . " ( Carlyle . ) " No mere function of The Brain . " " A World by itself . " Whence ? A machine not ...
... things . " " Thinker of God's thoughts after Him . " What is the Origin of Mind ? The genesis of THOUGHT . VOLITION . " Thaumaturgic . " ( Carlyle . ) " No mere function of The Brain . " " A World by itself . " Whence ? A machine not ...
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... thing . To the grief of it you can do many bad ones . In the possession of it is your peace and your power . " - Ruskin . CHAPTER I. THE RIGHT OF SEARCH . " GOD created (2) As an Abiogenist, he thinks that Life may 66 some day be ...
... thing . To the grief of it you can do many bad ones . In the possession of it is your peace and your power . " - Ruskin . CHAPTER I. THE RIGHT OF SEARCH . " GOD created (2) As an Abiogenist, he thinks that Life may 66 some day be ...
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... thing ! The monads developed him . " The heavens declare the glory of God " ? Far from it : " they de- clare only the glory of the astronomer ! " " We have now no need of the hypothesis of God . " These utterances , and such as these ...
... thing ! The monads developed him . " The heavens declare the glory of God " ? Far from it : " they de- clare only the glory of the astronomer ! " " We have now no need of the hypothesis of God . " These utterances , and such as these ...
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accept actual Address admit animal answer appears assertion atoms authority become beginning believe bodies called carbonic cause cell CHAPTER chemical chemistry complex compounds conception conclusion consciousness creation Darwin David Brewster dead demonstrable derived distinct doctrine doubt Edition elements equally evidence Evolution existence fact forces forms Fortnightly given Haeckel human hypothesis identical imagination inorganic instance intellectual kind knowledge laws least less living living matter Materialism matter means merely mind modification molecules Monera nature never observation once organic Origin of Species period phenomena physical plants possessed possible present probably produced Prof Professor Huxley Professor Tyndall progression proof properties protoplasm prove question reason regarded relation result Review says scientific selection simple spontaneous structure substance suppose tells theory thing thought tion true truth universe vegetable views vitality whole
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Стр. 148 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Стр. 15 - 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. 46 - He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
Стр. 15 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled 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...
Стр. 16 - I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Стр. 20 - A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has "gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that He required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of His laws.
Стр. 30 - 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. 199 - None of the processes of Nature, since the time when Nature began, have produced the slightest difference in the properties of any molecule.
Стр. 70 - At all events, no line has ever been drawn between the conscious and the unconscious ; for the vegetable shades into the animal by such fine gradations, that it is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins.
Стр. 91 - By an intellectual necessity I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that Matter which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of all terrestrial Life.