Natural Selection Not Inconsistent with Natural Theology: A Free Examination of Darwin's Treatise on the Origin of Species, and of Its American ReviewersTrübner & Company, 1861 - 55 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 16
Page 3
... doctrine was better than the old one , after all , at least for those who had nothing to unlearn . Such being our habitual state of mind , it may well be believed that the perusal of the new book " On the Origin of Species by Means of ...
... doctrine was better than the old one , after all , at least for those who had nothing to unlearn . Such being our habitual state of mind , it may well be believed that the perusal of the new book " On the Origin of Species by Means of ...
Page 4
... doctrine , that population tends far to outrun means of subsistence throughout the animal and vegetable world , and has to be kept down by sharp preventive checks ; so that not more than one of a hundred or a thousand of the individuals ...
... doctrine , that population tends far to outrun means of subsistence throughout the animal and vegetable world , and has to be kept down by sharp preventive checks ; so that not more than one of a hundred or a thousand of the individuals ...
Page 16
... doctrine paves the way , by showing that in the physical geology there is no general or absolute break between the two , probably no greater between the latest tertiary and the quaternary period than between the latter and the present ...
... doctrine paves the way , by showing that in the physical geology there is no general or absolute break between the two , probably no greater between the latest tertiary and the quaternary period than between the latter and the present ...
Page 19
... doctrine of derivation than is the general rule of a pure and sim- ple ascending gradation . We refer to what Agassiz calls prophetic and synthetic types ; for which the former name may suffice , as the differ- ence between the two is ...
... doctrine of derivation than is the general rule of a pure and sim- ple ascending gradation . We refer to what Agassiz calls prophetic and synthetic types ; for which the former name may suffice , as the differ- ence between the two is ...
Page 23
... doctrine all their lives as M. Jourdain talked prose without knowing it . - If it is difficult and in many cases practically impossible to fix the limits of species , it is still more so to fix those of genera ; and those of tribes and ...
... doctrine all their lives as M. Jourdain talked prose without knowing it . - If it is difficult and in many cases practically impossible to fix the limits of species , it is still more so to fix those of genera ; and those of tribes and ...
Other editions - View all
Natural Selection Not Inconsistent with Natural Theology: A Free Examination ... Asa Gray No preview available - 2015 |
Natural Selection Not Inconsistent With Natural Theology: A Free Examination ... No preview available - 2020 |
Common terms and phrases
absolute accept adaptation Agassiz appears atheistical auroch believe Boston reviewers categories of thought common community of origin creation Darwin's hypothesis Darwin's particular Darwin's theory derivation of species derivative hypothesis descendants design in Nature difficulties direct distinct divergence diversification Divine doctrine doubt Edinburgh Review efficient cause epoch equally evidence existing explain extinct species facts favor final causes founded upon different genealogical connection genera genus geological gradations green woodpeckers ground higher brute human hypoth idea individuals infer instinct intelligence Journal of Science kindred less lines living mastodons material connection mode natural selection natural theology naturalists nebular hypothesis North American Review objections operation organic Nature origin of species parent perfect perhaps period philosophical physical Pictet plants and animals present primordial probably prove question races rhinoceros scientific secondary causes sort structure suggest supernatural suppose supposition things tion transmutation uniformitarian variation and natural varieties vary Wherefore whole
Popular passages
Page 28 - Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth Sixth after his kind " : and it was so. And God made the Day beast of the earth after his kind...
Page 13 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...
Page 13 - ... been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.
Page 21 - ... and failures utterly dishearten him. All these things, it may naturally be said, go to explain the order, not the mode, of the incoming of species. But they all do tend to bring out the generalization expressed by Mr. Wallace in the formula that " every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with preexisting closely-allied species.
Page 13 - ... such low and intermediate form, both animals and plants may have been developed; and, if we admit this, we must likewise admit that all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth may be descended from some one primordial form. But this inference is chiefly grounded on analogy, and it is immaterial whether or not it be accepted.
Page 37 - Let this process go on for millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man?
Page 13 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 13 - 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.
Page 45 - But do they really believe that at innumerable periods in the earth's history certain elemental atoms have been commanded suddenly to flash into living tissues?
Page 26 - I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine. It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the " plan of creation," " unity of design," &c., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.