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. Essays - Стр. 429авторы: Herbert Spencer - 1910Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Charles Darwin - 1866 - Страниц: 668
...are almost necessary for brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but 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. With a little familiarity such superficial objections... | |
| 1867 - Страниц: 510
...are almost necessary for brevity. So, again, it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but 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." — (P. 91-2.) Now, I think in the face of this it behoves... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - Страниц: 406
...are almost necessary for brevity. So, again, it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature, but I mean by Nature only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws, the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - Страниц: 598
...are almost necessary for brevity. So, again, it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature, but I mean by Nature only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws, the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial... | |
| Robert Willis - 1870 - Страниц: 704
...things.' He speaks of it again as ' an Active power or Deity ; ' and by ' Nature,' he says, ' I mean the aggregate action and product of many natural laws ; and by Laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us.' — Darwin, Origin of Species, 4th Ed. p. 92. To conclude... | |
| John R. Leifchild - 1872 - Страниц: 578
...are almost necessary for brevity. So, again, it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but 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." So far this is clear enough, and we learn that... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1873 - Страниц: 492
...they are almost necessary for brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by lawa the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial objections... | |
| Thomas Suter Ackland - 1873 - Страниц: 248
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| Thomas Suter Ackland - 1873 - Страниц: 250
...expressly excludes this sense of the word, in a sentence which seems to involve a self-contradiction. "I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by law only the ascertained sequence of events3." Law, in this sense, then, is simply the statement of... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1873 - Страниц: 626
...does he deify nature, but says this of her : "It is difficult to avoid personifying the word nature ; but I mean by nature, only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." It is obvious that the effect of the... | |
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