Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Том 2Victoria Institute., 1867 |
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... prove that the land had been favoured with a climate at least 30 ° Fahrenheit warmer than it is at present , as it is quite certain that they never could have borne a low temperature . If we look at those species which we may consider ...
... prove that the land had been favoured with a climate at least 30 ° Fahrenheit warmer than it is at present , as it is quite certain that they never could have borne a low temperature . If we look at those species which we may consider ...
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... proving that that part of England has not only been upheaved , but also exposed to a tropical , or at least , a semi - tropical sun . Many of the fossil trees are still standing erect , with the roots in the yery ground in which they ...
... proving that that part of England has not only been upheaved , but also exposed to a tropical , or at least , a semi - tropical sun . Many of the fossil trees are still standing erect , with the roots in the yery ground in which they ...
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... proved by D'Alembert , to account for the change referred to by an assumed conical motion of the terrestrial axis . This inconsistent hypothesis has been lately exposed and demo- lished by M. Poinset , an eminent member of the French ...
... proved by D'Alembert , to account for the change referred to by an assumed conical motion of the terrestrial axis . This inconsistent hypothesis has been lately exposed and demo- lished by M. Poinset , an eminent member of the French ...
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... proved in all parts of the world , and , indeed , is recorded in the Nautical Almanac as an essential element to be taken into account in all our astronomical observations to insure accuracy , the ages of the lands referred to can be ...
... proved in all parts of the world , and , indeed , is recorded in the Nautical Almanac as an essential element to be taken into account in all our astronomical observations to insure accuracy , the ages of the lands referred to can be ...
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... prove to a certainty that there has been no alteration in elevation or general geographical situation in Palestine during the last 3,400 years ; you can prove that the sea - coast lay in the same place , that the mountains were of the ...
... prove to a certainty that there has been no alteration in elevation or general geographical situation in Palestine during the last 3,400 years ; you can prove that the sea - coast lay in the same place , that the mountains were of the ...
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Стр. 69 - 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. 293 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck : And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Стр. 119 - ... pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
Стр. 207 - Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Стр. 108 - It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity.
Стр. 84 - If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument, we ought in imagination to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with spaces filled with fluid, and 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...
Стр. 139 - Subduct from any phenomenon such part as is known by previous inductions to be the effect of certain antecedents, and the residue of the phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents.
Стр. 174 - The question of questions for mankind — the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other — is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things.
Стр. 108 - 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. 125 - If we now suppose this feeling of unity to be taught as a religion, and the whole force of education, of institutions, and of opinion, directed, as it once was in the case of religion, to make every person grow up from infancy surrounded on all sides...