The Foundations of ZoölogyMacmillan, 1899 - Всего страниц: 339 Presents a series of lectures from the 1800's which show that life is a response to the order of nature. Includes lectures on nature and nurture, migration, zoology, and the philosophy of evolution. |
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... explanation of their presence , are also most emphatic in their repudiation of teleology , and in the rejection of the belief of Louis Agassiz , that they are part of the language in which the Creator tells us the history of creation ...
... explanation of their presence , are also most emphatic in their repudiation of teleology , and in the rejection of the belief of Louis Agassiz , that they are part of the language in which the Creator tells us the history of creation ...
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... explanation of the house - hunting actions of crabs . All who have to do with animals admit that training can do no more for them than to make the best of their natural capa- city , for they differ greatly in power to profit by ...
... explanation of the house - hunting actions of crabs . All who have to do with animals admit that training can do no more for them than to make the best of their natural capa- city , for they differ greatly in power to profit by ...
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... explanation , but a thing to be explained . The proof that there is no necessary antagonism between me- chanical explanations of human life and belief in volition and duty and moral responsibility seems to me to be very simple and easy ...
... explanation , but a thing to be explained . The proof that there is no necessary antagonism between me- chanical explanations of human life and belief in volition and duty and moral responsibility seems to me to be very simple and easy ...
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... explanation , we say we understand them when we have discovered that they do neither less nor more than their mechanical structure would lead us to expect . It is also clear that we might understand them , in this sense of the word ...
... explanation , we say we understand them when we have discovered that they do neither less nor more than their mechanical structure would lead us to expect . It is also clear that we might understand them , in this sense of the word ...
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... explanation . The most stable organs may be modified by novel or excep- tional use , and the most profound structural changes may be brought about by nurture . After Hunter had fed a sea - gull on grain for a year , he found that the ...
... explanation . The most stable organs may be modified by novel or excep- tional use , and the most profound structural changes may be brought about by nurture . After Hunter had fed a sea - gull on grain for a year , he found that the ...
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Стр. 309 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Стр. 40 - If the properties of water may be properly said to result from the nature and disposition of its component molecules, I can find no intelligible ground for refusing to say that the properties of protoplasm result from the nature and disposition of its molecules.
Стр. 108 - But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease.
Стр. 339 - I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew the watch might have always been there.
Стр. 217 - Consequently, if the theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Cambrian stratum was deposited long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Cambrian age to the present day ; and that during these vast periods the world swarmed with living creatures.
Стр. 63 - I CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, im-pedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Стр. 296 - But when, as commonly happens, we change will into must, we introduce an idea of necessity which most assuredly does not lie in the observed facts, and has no warranty that I can discover elsewhere. For my part, I utterly repudiate and anathematise the intruder. Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
Стр. 296 - Simply that in all human experience, stones have fallen to the ground under these conditions; that we have not the smallest reason for believing that any stone so circumstanced will not fall to the ground ; and that we have on the contrary every reason to believe that it will so fall.