The Three Barriers: Notes on Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species."Blackwood, 1861 - 180 pages |
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ACROGENS analogy ancient animal Appendix ARCH-EXOGENS Archegosaurus Argument from Design Aristodemus articulate atheism Backbone bird breast brute causation century cerebral common correlation Creative creatures crustacean Cuvier Darwin Darwin's scheme dawn distinct Divine doctrine earth Endogen endowed Eocene existence EXOGEN fact feet Final Cause Fishes forethought fossil genus Geology Gymnogen hand heavens human brain hypothesis Ichthyosaurus induction insect instinct intelligence kingdoms knowledge leet less living lower mammal mammalian manco-cerebral matter Melipona ment Mesozoic milk million mind MOLLUSKS natural selection Natural Theology naturalist never offspring Oolite organs Origin of Species Palæontology Parthenogenesis peculiar perfect phenomena plants pleno-cerebral prerogative principle produced PROTOZOA Pterygotus quadrumana race reason reptile result saurians scale Siluria skeleton structure SUB-MAMMALS Sub-vertebrates supposed THALLOGENS things thought tion tongue tribes true truth universe vegetable vertebrate WAVE-BRAINED whale wings wisdom zone
Popular passages
Page 79 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 2 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Page 71 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 173 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 164 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature : for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on, when he finds himself maintained by a man ; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura...
Page 173 - Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith ; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things ; Of ebb and flow, and evcr-during power ; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation.
Page 164 - As quickly as he may ; Nor far had gone before he found A human skeleton on the ground ; The appalled discoverer with a sigh Looks round, to learn the history. From those abrupt and perilous rocks The Man had fallen, that place of fear ! At length upon the Shepherd's mind It breaks, and all is clear : He instantly recalled the name, And who he was, and whence he came ; Remembered, too, the very day On which the traveller passed this way.
Page 8 - So careful of the type?' but no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries "A thousand types are gone. I care for nothing; all shall go. "Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death; The spirit does but mean the breath; I know no more.
Page 60 - The sun ariseth, and they get them away together : and lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labour : until the evening. 0 Lord, how manifold are thy works ; in wisdom hast thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy riches. So is the great and wide sea also : wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 130 - Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.