Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by EvolutionHodder and Stoughton, 1873 - 259 pages |
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Page 75
... bees ; for other bees do not visit these flowers , not being able to reach the nectar . Hence we may infer , that if the whole genus of humble bees became extinct , or very rare in England , the heartsease and red clover would become ...
... bees ; for other bees do not visit these flowers , not being able to reach the nectar . Hence we may infer , that if the whole genus of humble bees became extinct , or very rare in England , the heartsease and red clover would become ...
Page 76
... bees , the more bees the more heartsease and red clover , that is , the more cats the more of these flowers ! And of course in all these struggles the quickest cats and quickest mice will have the advantage , and the bees with the ...
... bees , the more bees the more heartsease and red clover , that is , the more cats the more of these flowers ! And of course in all these struggles the quickest cats and quickest mice will have the advantage , and the bees with the ...
Page 81
... bee of the genus Melipona . The thorax and body are densely hairy , like those of the bee , and the legs are tufted in a manner most unusual in the order Coleoptera . Another longicorn ( Odontocera odyneroides ) has the abdomen banded ...
... bee of the genus Melipona . The thorax and body are densely hairy , like those of the bee , and the legs are tufted in a manner most unusual in the order Coleoptera . Another longicorn ( Odontocera odyneroides ) has the abdomen banded ...
Page 185
... bees sip their nectar , the birds carol their joy , and many animals live to a good old age . When we reflect on this struggle , as remarked by Mr Darwin himself , we may console our- selves with the belief that the war of nature is not ...
... bees sip their nectar , the birds carol their joy , and many animals live to a good old age . When we reflect on this struggle , as remarked by Mr Darwin himself , we may console our- selves with the belief that the war of nature is not ...
Page 212
... bees and butterflies may be watched flying from flower to flower , disregarding all other parts of the plant — they certainly discover flowers by colour , and it is proved that plants which are fertilized exclusively by the wind never ...
... bees and butterflies may be watched flying from flower to flower , disregarding all other parts of the plant — they certainly discover flowers by colour , and it is proved that plants which are fertilized exclusively by the wind never ...
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Page 125 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 87 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world.
Page 130 - When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a long history...
Page 108 - Nothing at first can appear more difficult to believe than that the more complex organs and instincts should have been perfected, not by means superior to, though analogous with human reason, but by the accumulation of innumerable slight variations, each good for the individual possessor.
Page 128 - To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. "When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
Page 84 - I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good : Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Page 143 - Von Baer found that in its earliest stage, every organism has the greatest number of characters in common with all other organisms in their earliest stages ; that at a stage somewhat later, its structure is like the structures displayed at corresponding phases by a less extensive multitude of organisms ; that at each subsequent stage, traits are acquired which successively distinguish the developing embryo from groups of embryos that it previously resembled — thus step by step diminishing the...
Page 112 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 181 - ... each annually scattering its seeds by the thousand ; what war between insect and insect — between insects, snails, and other animals with birds and beasts of prey — all striving to increase...
Page 244 - We hardly use the word ought in a metaphorical sense when we say hounds ought to hunt, pointers to point, and retrievers to retrieve their game.