EssaysD. Appleton & Company, 1910 |
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... separate volumes at long intervals . The first volume appeared in December 1857 ; the second in November 1863 ; and the third in February 1874. By the time the original editions of the first two had been sold , American reprints ...
... separate volumes at long intervals . The first volume appeared in December 1857 ; the second in November 1863 ; and the third in February 1874. By the time the original editions of the first two had been sold , American reprints ...
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... separate series of essays into one series , has made needful a general re - arrangement . Whether to follow the order of time or the order of subjects was a question which presented itself ; and , as neither alternative promised ...
... separate series of essays into one series , has made needful a general re - arrangement . Whether to follow the order of time or the order of subjects was a question which presented itself ; and , as neither alternative promised ...
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... . They can show that it is a matter of dispute whether some of these modified forms are varieties or separate species . They can show , too , that the changes daily taking place in ourselves - the facility THE DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS .
... . They can show that it is a matter of dispute whether some of these modified forms are varieties or separate species . They can show , too , that the changes daily taking place in ourselves - the facility THE DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS .
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... separate equation , and the first and last of which are quite opposite in nature , connected together as members of one series , all producible by a single process of insensible modification . But the blindness of those who think it ...
... separate equation , and the first and last of which are quite opposite in nature , connected together as members of one series , all producible by a single process of insensible modification . But the blindness of those who think it ...
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... separate stocks , it would still remain true , that as , from each of these stocks , there have sprung many now widely - different tribes , which are proved by philological evidence to have had a common origin , the race as a whole is ...
... separate stocks , it would still remain true , that as , from each of these stocks , there have sprung many now widely - different tribes , which are proved by philological evidence to have had a common origin , the race as a whole is ...
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action aggregation analogy angular velocities animals arise assume become belief body cause centre changes characters complex compound conception connexion consciousness consequent contrast creatures Darwin degree Devonian differentiation direct doctrine Duke of Argyll Earth effects emotions evidence evolution exist fact Fauna feelings force formation forms fossils functions further geological gravity greater groups habit heat Hence heterogeneous higher homogeneous human implies increasing individual inferred inheritance John Herschel kind less living mammals manifest mass matter medium mental Metazoa modifications motion natural selection Nebular Hypothesis nebulous observed orbits organic Origin of Species original outer ovum phenomena photosphere planetoids plants present produced progress Protozoa races relation remote respect ring rotation satellites Silurian similarly social society Solar Solar System species specific gravity spheroid stars strata stratum structure supposed surface temperature things tion traits tribe truth unlike variations velocity vertebrata
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Стр. 113 - Can this also be mere coincidence ? When to the fact that the general mass of nebulae are antithetical in position to the general mass of stars, we add the fact that local regions of nebulae are regions where stars are scarce, and the further fact that single nebulae are habitually found in comparatively starless spots ; does not the proof of a physical...
Стр. 429 - I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us.
Стр. 2 - Is it most likely that there have been ten millions of special creations ? or is it most likely that by continual modifications, due to change of circumstances, ten millions of varieties have been produced, as varieties are being produced still...
Стр. 314 - In endeavouring to account for the worship of animals, we must remember that names are very frequently taken from them. The children and followers of a man called the Bear or the Lion would make that a tribal name. Hence the animal itself would be first respected, at last worshipped.
Стр. 270 - Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man ; for by art is created that great leviathan, called a Commonwealth, or State, (in Latin Ciutas) which is but an artificial man...
Стр. 420 - I think there can be no doubt that use in our domestic animals has strengthened and enlarged certain parts, and disuse diminished them ; and that such modifications are inherited.
Стр. 61 - ... the more he is baffled. Similarly, though analysis of mental actions may finally bring him down to sensations as the original materials out of which all thought is woven, he is none the forwarder ; for he cannot in the least comprehend sensation — cannot even conceive how sensation is possible. Inward and outward things he thus discovers to be alike inscrutable in their ultimate genesis and nature.
Стр. 420 - I may take this opportunity of remarking that my critics frequently assume that I attribute all changes of corporeal structure and mental power exclusively to the natural selection of such variations as are often called spontaneous; whereas, even in the first edition of the
Стр. 154 - That our harmonious universe once existed potentially as formless diffused matter, and has slowly grown into its present organized state, is a far more astonishing fact than would have been its formation after the artificial method vulgarly supposed. Those who hold it legitimate to argue from phenomena to noumena, may rightly contend that the Nebular Hypothesis implies a First Cause as much transcending "the mechanical God of Paley," as this does the fetish of the savage.
Стр. 333 - I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kind of actions necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness.