 | 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...confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the... | |
 | 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...confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the... | |
 | 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...Selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." 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... | |
 | 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...Selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." Dr. Elam adds : " Yet, having said so much, he makes the attempt to explain its origin... | |
 | 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...confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the... | |
 | 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...selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me that, if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to... | |
 | 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...selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me that, if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex ej-6 to... | |
 | 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... | |
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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,... 
