 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1885 - Страниц: 342
...the opinion of Helmholtz, very candidly says — " To suppose that the eye, with all its immutable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...for admitting different amounts of light, and for * Lectures and Eisays, by the late WK Clifford, FES, vol. i., p. 145. the correction of spherical and... | |
 | Robert Watts - 1888 - Страниц: 440
...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... | |
 | Januarius De Concilio - 1889 - Страниц: 276
...This implies such monstrous assumptions that even Darwin has been staggered. 'To suppose,' he says, 'that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to difierent distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - Страниц: 408
...diving Hymenoptera, and petrels with the habits of auks. Organs of extreme Perfection and Complication. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - Страниц: 406
...diving Hymenoptera, and petrels with the habits of auks. Organs of extreme Perfection and Complication. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1902 - Страниц: 472
...diving thrushes, and petrels with the habits of auks. Organs of extreme perfection and complication. — To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...could have been formed by natural selection, seems, 1 freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations... | |
 | Thomas Hunt Morgan - 1903 - Страниц: 498
...extreme perfection and complication cannot be accounted for by natural selection, as follows : — " To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." The following sketch that Darwin gives to show how he imagined the vertebrate eye to have... | |
 | Dennis Hird - 1903 - Страниц: 260
...difficulty — namely, the development of organs of extreme perfection and complexity. He himself says : " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...admitting different amounts of light, and for the correcting of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems,... | |
 | Charles Edmund Fisher - 1904 - Страниц: 404
...adapted mechanism for protective and restorative purposes any more startling than the evolution of the eye "with all its inimitable contrivances for...correction of spherical and chromatic aberration?" Within the highest division of the animal kingdom, the vertebrates, we can start with an eye so simple... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - Страниц: 584
...diving Hymenoptera, and petrels with the habits of auks. ORGANS OF EXTREME PERFECTION AND COMPLICATION. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and forThe correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection,... | |
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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,... 
