Unconscious Memory: A Comparison Between the Theory of Dr. Ewald Hering and the "Philosophy of the Unconscious" of Dr. Edward Von HartmannLongmans, Green, 1890 - 288 pages |
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... writers on the subject are still unable to catch sight of the distinction here alluded to , and console myself for my want of acumen by reflecting that , if I was misled , I was misled in good company . I - and I may add , the public ...
... writers on the subject are still unable to catch sight of the distinction here alluded to , and console myself for my want of acumen by reflecting that , if I was misled , I was misled in good company . I - and I may add , the public ...
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... writer , though essentially original , was founded upon Buffon , who was greatly more in advance of any predecessor than any successor has been in advance of him . We did not know , then , that according to the earlier writers the ...
... writer , though essentially original , was founded upon Buffon , who was greatly more in advance of any predecessor than any successor has been in advance of him . We did not know , then , that according to the earlier writers the ...
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... writers had endeavoured to illuminate as the central point in their system . We took it for granted that more light must be being thrown instead of less ; and reading in perfect good faith , we rose from our perusal with the impression ...
... writers had endeavoured to illuminate as the central point in their system . We took it for granted that more light must be being thrown instead of less ; and reading in perfect good faith , we rose from our perusal with the impression ...
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... as a general rule , stamped with a disingenuousness which at that time we believed to be peculiar to theological writers and alien to the spirit of science . Seeing , therefore , that the men of ΙΟ UNCONSCIOUS MEMORY .
... as a general rule , stamped with a disingenuousness which at that time we believed to be peculiar to theological writers and alien to the spirit of science . Seeing , therefore , that the men of ΙΟ UNCONSCIOUS MEMORY .
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... writers ? If they had written anything worthy of our attention , or indeed if there had been any earlier writers at all , Mr. Darwin would have been the first to tell us about them , and to award them their due meed of recognition . But ...
... writers ? If they had written anything worthy of our attention , or indeed if there had been any earlier writers at all , Mr. Darwin would have been the first to tell us about them , and to award them their due meed of recognition . But ...
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Unconscious Memory: A Comparison Between the Theory of Dr. Ewald ..., lk 1–286 Samuel Butler No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 11 - When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.
Page 55 - EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW : Being a Comparison of the Theories of BUFFON, Dr. ERASMUS DARWIN, and LAMARCK, with that of Mr. CHARLES DARWIN. With copious Extracts from the Writings of the first three-named Authors. Crown 8vo, cloth, price 7^.
Page 35 - But it would be a serious error to suppose that the greater number of instincts have been acquired by habit in one generation, and then transmitted by inheritance to succeeding generations. It can be clearly shown that the most wonderful instincts with which we are acquainted, namely, those of the hive-bee and of many ants, could not possibly have been acquired by habit.
Page 79 - If it appears that I have used language such as is rarely seen in controversy, let the reader remember that the occasion is, so far as I know, unparalleled for the cynicism and audacity with which the wrong complained of was committed and persisted in. I trust, however, that, though not indifferent to this, my indignation has been mainly roused, as when I wrote "Evolution, Old and New/
Page 91 - ... that every point of a medium through which a ray of light passes is affected with a succession of periodical movements, regularly recurring at equal intervals, no less than five hundred millions of millions of times in a single second ! that it is by such movements, communicated to the nerves of our eyes, that we see...
Page 286 - I should be very glad to come across some of the "little consideration" which will show this. I have searched for it far and wide, and have never been able to find it. I think Professor Huxley has been exercising some of his ineradicable tendency to try to make things clear in the article on Evolution, already so often quoted from. We find him (p. 750) pooh-poohing Lamarck, yet on the next page he says, "How far 'natural selection ' suffices for the production of species remains to be seen.
Page 91 - They are, nevertheless, conclusions to which any one may most certainly arrive, who will only be at the trouble of examining the chain of reasoning by which they have been obtained.
Page 41 - he was the first who proposed and persistently carried out a well-rounded theory with regard to the development of the living world
Page 282 - The hypothesis of Lamarck — that progressive changes in species • have been produced by the attempts of animals to increase the development of their own organs, and thus modify their structure and habits — has been repeatedly and easily refuted by all writers on the subject of varieties and species...
Page 77 - Presently I saw Professor Huxley hastening to the rescue with his lecture on the coming of age of the " Origin of Species," and by May it was easy for Professor Ray Lankester to imply that Mr. Darwin was the greatest of living men. I have since noticed two or three other controversies raging in the...