Analysis of Darwin, Huxley and Lyell, Being a Critical Examination of the Views of These Authors in Regard to the Origin and Antiquitity of ManTuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1866 - Всего страниц: 94 |
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... entirely upon the following assumptions : - 1st . That " all the organic beings , extinct and recent , which have ever lived on this earth , " are the modified descendants , by natural generation , of one common ancestor , and in this ...
... entirely upon the following assumptions : - 1st . That " all the organic beings , extinct and recent , which have ever lived on this earth , " are the modified descendants , by natural generation , of one common ancestor , and in this ...
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... entirely different opinion . He thinks he can explain how physical laws and physical agents have brought into existence all the successive forms of organic life , from its first beginning , and how they have , with discrim- inating ...
... entirely different opinion . He thinks he can explain how physical laws and physical agents have brought into existence all the successive forms of organic life , from its first beginning , and how they have , with discrim- inating ...
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... entirely defeat the scope and aim of our author's hy- pothesis , which is , manifestly , framed so as to make the nearest approach to spontaneous generation , and to exclude a Divine Creator , as far as it is possible , from the works ...
... entirely defeat the scope and aim of our author's hy- pothesis , which is , manifestly , framed so as to make the nearest approach to spontaneous generation , and to exclude a Divine Creator , as far as it is possible , from the works ...
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... entirely with Mr. Huxley , both as regards the falsity of the Scriptures and the truth of his own proposition . Our task is a plain one ; it is to carefully sift . the facts and to rigidly scrutinize the ar- gument which he advances ...
... entirely with Mr. Huxley , both as regards the falsity of the Scriptures and the truth of his own proposition . Our task is a plain one ; it is to carefully sift . the facts and to rigidly scrutinize the ar- gument which he advances ...
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... entirely different aspect , the moment Mr. Huxley attempts its consideration . We learn , with infinite surprise , that this mo- mentous question is to be settled solely by the aid of the " scalpel , " and that Man's true place in ...
... entirely different aspect , the moment Mr. Huxley attempts its consideration . We learn , with infinite surprise , that this mo- mentous question is to be settled solely by the aid of the " scalpel , " and that Man's true place in ...
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Стр. 10 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Стр. 30 - It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.
Стр. 30 - Whence but from Heaven could men unskill'd in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths ? or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie ? Unask'd their pains, ungrateful their advice, Starving their gain, and martyrdom their price.
Стр. 21 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Стр. 14 - ... with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing slowly in density, so as to separate into layers of different densities and thicknesses, placed at different distances from each other, and with the surfaces of each layer slowly changing in form. Further, we must suppose that there is a power, represented by natural selection...
Стр. 12 - It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving, and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Стр. 36 - Whence our race has come; what are the limits of our power over nature, and of nature's power over us; to what goal we are tending; are the problems which present themselves anew and with undiminished interest to every man born into the world.
Стр. 60 - At the same time, no one is more strongly convinced than I am of the vastness of the gulf between civilized man and the brutes ; or is more certain that, whether from them or not, he is assuredly not of them.
Стр. 11 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
Стр. 42 - ... remain then but one order for comparison, that of the Apes (using that word in its broadest sense), and the question for discussion would narrow itself to this — is Man so different from any of these Apes that he must form an order by himself? Or does he differ less from them than they differ from one another, and hence must take his place in the same order with them?