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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... thought is enough to show that the fact that events do take place in order is no reason why they should , or even why they should take place at all . Order is no explanation , but a thing to be explained . The proof that there is no ...
... thought is enough to show that the fact that events do take place in order is no reason why they should , or even why they should take place at all . Order is no explanation , but a thing to be explained . The proof that there is no ...
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... thought is needed to discover how great are the difficulties that attend the application of these principles . What ... thoughts , opinions , and manners now prevalent , many years hence return again , after an intermediate period of ...
... thought is needed to discover how great are the difficulties that attend the application of these principles . What ... thoughts , opinions , and manners now prevalent , many years hence return again , after an intermediate period of ...
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... thought that convince us of its existence ? What is this conviction worth ? What are the methods by which knowledge of this order is acquired and perfected and extended ? How far are these methods and instruments trustworthy ? Are any ...
... thought that convince us of its existence ? What is this conviction worth ? What are the methods by which knowledge of this order is acquired and perfected and extended ? How far are these methods and instruments trustworthy ? Are any ...
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... thought to the subject hold fast , consciously or unconsciously , to belief in the universal and necessary conservation of energy , to belief in a necessary law of universal progress or evolution , to belief in the arbitrary and ...
... thought to the subject hold fast , consciously or unconsciously , to belief in the universal and necessary conservation of energy , to belief in a necessary law of universal progress or evolution , to belief in the arbitrary and ...
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... thought it a voice from an oracle " ; although I hope it may " stir up the intellects of the studious to search more ... thoughts of others . Bacon tells us indeed that it is seldom in our power to both admire and surpass our author ...
... thought it a voice from an oracle " ; although I hope it may " stir up the intellects of the studious to search more ... thoughts of others . Bacon tells us indeed that it is seldom in our power to both admire and surpass our author ...
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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.