The Doctrine of Descent and DarwinismD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - Всего страниц: 334 |
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... LIMITS OF THE INVESTI- GATION OF NATURE PAGR I II . THE ANIMAL WORLD IN ITS PRESENT STATE • III . 24 THE PHENOMENA OF REPRODUCTION IN THE ANIMAL World . • 39 IV THE ANIMAL WORLD IN ITS HISTORICAL AND PALEONTOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT V. THE ...
... LIMITS OF THE INVESTI- GATION OF NATURE PAGR I II . THE ANIMAL WORLD IN ITS PRESENT STATE • III . 24 THE PHENOMENA OF REPRODUCTION IN THE ANIMAL World . • 39 IV THE ANIMAL WORLD IN ITS HISTORICAL AND PALEONTOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT V. THE ...
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... Limits of the Investigation of Nature . A CRAVING to understand existence pervades mankind , and the life of every self - conscious individual . Every system of philosophy has endeavoured to penetrate into the nature of things , and has ...
... Limits of the Investigation of Nature . A CRAVING to understand existence pervades mankind , and the life of every self - conscious individual . Every system of philosophy has endeavoured to penetrate into the nature of things , and has ...
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... limits of the in- vestigation of nature . For if it were an established prin- ciple that the mystery of the living is different from that of the non - living , that the former might be disclosed , but that the latter is shrouded in a ...
... limits of the in- vestigation of nature . For if it were an established prin- ciple that the mystery of the living is different from that of the non - living , that the former might be disclosed , but that the latter is shrouded in a ...
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... limits of the investigation of nature . It is the more important , as incompetent judges are wont to assert , that these limits are exceeded . The frivolity of the logic by which such accusations are ren- dered plausible to the ...
... limits of the investigation of nature . It is the more important , as incompetent judges are wont to assert , that these limits are exceeded . The frivolity of the logic by which such accusations are ren- dered plausible to the ...
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... limits , and must here suspend your judgment . It is a question of a higher moral object ; the domain . of ethics is higher than that of physics , and therefore a higher causality , which physicists have no right to criticise , has ...
... limits , and must here suspend your judgment . It is a question of a higher moral object ; the domain . of ethics is higher than that of physics , and therefore a higher causality , which physicists have no right to criticise , has ...
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according adaptation already Ammonites Amphibians animal world apes appearance Ascidian become birds brain carboniferous causes Cetacea character characteristics comparative anatomy complete connection continent Darwin dentition derivation diverge doctrine of Descent Echinoderms embryonic Eocene exhibit existence external facts families fauna fish formation fossil Ganoids Gastrula genera genus geological Goethe grade gradually groups Haeckel heredity higher horse human hypothesis idea individual infer Insectivora intermediate forms islands lancelet language larva larvæ likewise linguistic lower mammals Marsupials Medusa ment merely metamorphosis modifications morphological mutability natural selection observation Oolite organisms origin peculiar pedigree perfect period phase phenomena placenta plants polypes possess present primordial progenitors races relations remains reproduction reptiles resemblance Rütimeyer says scarcely scientific separate sexual Silurian skull species strata structure systematic terrestrial animals Tertiary theory of selection tion transformation transition true Ungulata Ungulates varieties vertebral column Vertebrata vertebrate animals whole
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Стр. 162 - 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.18 Darwin always knew that his views would be controversial. A few days before The Origin of Species appeared, Darwin wrote, in a letter to Wallace, 'God knows what...
Стр. 160 - Na'geli on plants, and the remarks by various authors with respect to animals, more especially those recently made by Professor Broca, that in the earlier editions of my Origin of Species I perhaps attributed too much to the action of natural selection or the survival of the fittest.