 | London coll. of the Presbyterian church in England - 1875 - Страниц: 268
...presented in the structure and functions of the organ of vision, with, as Mr. Darwin expresses it, "all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the...focus to different distances, for admitting different degrees of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration," will wonder that even... | |
 | 1877 - Страниц: 612
...is disposed of in the same way. Thus he says — " To suppose that the eye, with all its admirable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1877 - Страниц: 600
...is disposed of in the same way. Thus he says — " To suppose that the eye, with all its admirable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
 | 1880 - Страниц: 798
...Darwin thus expresses himself :* "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances j:or adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." Yet, having said so much, he makes the attempt to explain its origin — and fails. The reason is obvious... | |
 | William Unsworth - 1881 - Страниц: 384
...Selection." Even Mr. Darwin frankly says : " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivance for adjusting the focus to .different distances, for...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." Dr. Elam adds : " Yet, having said so much, he makes the attempt to explain its origin — and fails.... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - Страниц: 348
...and ought. And yet Mr. Darwin begins by admitting it to be apparently "in the highest degree absurd to suppose that the eye, with all its INIMITABLE contrivances...aberration, could have been formed by natural selection." He then proceeds to indicate some " probable " stages in the process by which, as he believes, the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - Страниц: 494
...diving Hymenoptera, and petrels with the habits of auks. Oryans of extreme Perfection and Complication. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd iu the highest degree. When it was first feaid that the sun stood still and the world turned round,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - Страниц: 396
...suppose that the eye with all its inimSpeeies, itable contrivances for adjusting the focus page " ' to different distances, for admitting different amounts...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
 | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - 1885 - Страниц: 430
...D. I cannot better introduce my subject than by quoting the following passage from Chas. Darwin : " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me that, if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex ej-6 to one very imperfect... | |
 | 1885 - Страниц: 420
...D. I cannot better introduce my subject than by quoting the following passage from Chas. Darwin: " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me that, if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect... | |
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To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection,... 
