Analysis of Darwin, Huxley and Lyell, Being a Critical Examination of the Views of These Authors in Regard to the Origin and Antiquitity of ManTuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1866 - Всего страниц: 94 |
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... hand and what a foot . " He contrasts the bones of the human hand and foot , and shows , while there is a general similarity and " some singu- lar resemblances " in their homologous parts , yet " there is a fundamental difference in the ...
... hand and what a foot . " He contrasts the bones of the human hand and foot , and shows , while there is a general similarity and " some singu- lar resemblances " in their homologous parts , yet " there is a fundamental difference in the ...
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... hand and foot , showing the general similarity and special differences , and finally arrives at the conclusion , that a foot is distinguished from a hand by the three " following absolute anatomical differences : " 1st . By the ...
... hand and foot , showing the general similarity and special differences , and finally arrives at the conclusion , that a foot is distinguished from a hand by the three " following absolute anatomical differences : " 1st . By the ...
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... hand . " Here he is at variance with Cuvier and all the rest of the world . A foot which is prehensile , and can grasp with perfect facility , and perform other functions of the hand , is certainly , in some sense , a hand , according ...
... hand . " Here he is at variance with Cuvier and all the rest of the world . A foot which is prehensile , and can grasp with perfect facility , and perform other functions of the hand , is certainly , in some sense , a hand , according ...
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... hand . As the hand is a necessary organ of locomotion , so also the foot is designed by its structure to perform the functions of a hand , nearly , if not quite , as perfectly as the so - called hand . In fact , both are pre- hensile ...
... hand . As the hand is a necessary organ of locomotion , so also the foot is designed by its structure to perform the functions of a hand , nearly , if not quite , as perfectly as the so - called hand . In fact , both are pre- hensile ...
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... hand . We might also cite another fundamental difference belonging to the teeth , which organs have always been ... hands , fitting them to climb trees with equal facility , but presenting constantly the sole dif-- ference of an ...
... hand . We might also cite another fundamental difference belonging to the teeth , which organs have always been ... hands , fitting them to climb trees with equal facility , but presenting constantly the sole dif-- ference of an ...
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Стр. 10 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Стр. 30 - It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.
Стр. 30 - Whence but from Heaven could men unskill'd in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths ? or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie ? Unask'd their pains, ungrateful their advice, Starving their gain, and martyrdom their price.
Стр. 21 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Стр. 14 - ... 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 a power, represented by natural selection...
Стр. 12 - 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. 36 - Whence our race has come; what are the limits of our power over nature, and of nature's power over us; to what goal we are tending; are the problems which present themselves anew and with undiminished interest to every man born into the world.
Стр. 60 - At the same time, no one is more strongly convinced than I am of the vastness of the gulf between civilized man and the brutes ; or is more certain that, whether from them or not, he is assuredly not of them.
Стр. 11 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
Стр. 42 - ... remain then but one order for comparison, that of the Apes (using that word in its broadest sense), and the question for discussion would narrow itself to this — is Man so different from any of these Apes that he must form an order by himself? Or does he differ less from them than they differ from one another, and hence must take his place in the same order with them?