Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by EvolutionHodder and Stoughton, 1873 - 259 pages |
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... carrying us to new regions , and the perturbations which every planet causes in the motion of every other , there are changes going on in the solar system which can only end in its transformation or its decay . To begin with small ...
... carrying us to new regions , and the perturbations which every planet causes in the motion of every other , there are changes going on in the solar system which can only end in its transformation or its decay . To begin with small ...
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... carried out to sea - the finest particles the farthest — and deposited on the ocean floor . All the rivers of the world are carrying material to the sea , the largest rivers such enormous quantities that it is scarcely possible to ...
... carried out to sea - the finest particles the farthest — and deposited on the ocean floor . All the rivers of the world are carrying material to the sea , the largest rivers such enormous quantities that it is scarcely possible to ...
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... carrying the traveller through zones of life re- sembling those passed through in going from the tropics towards the poles . The range of each kind of living thing is limited by climate ; the temperature it requires is only found ...
... carrying the traveller through zones of life re- sembling those passed through in going from the tropics towards the poles . The range of each kind of living thing is limited by climate ; the temperature it requires is only found ...
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... carried so erect , that in good birds the head and tail touch : the oil - gland is quite aborted . Several other less distinct breeds might be specified . " Yet it is the common opinion of naturalists , that all these domestic varieties ...
... carried so erect , that in good birds the head and tail touch : the oil - gland is quite aborted . Several other less distinct breeds might be specified . " Yet it is the common opinion of naturalists , that all these domestic varieties ...
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... carry . Youatt gives an excellent illustration of the effects of a course of selec- tion , which may be considered as unconsciously followed , in so far that the breeders could never have expected , or even have wished , to have ...
... carry . Youatt gives an excellent illustration of the effects of a course of selec- tion , which may be considered as unconsciously followed , in so far that the breeders could never have expected , or even have wished , to have ...
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Darwinism and Design: Creation by Evolution - Scholar's Choice Edition George St Clair No preview available - 2015 |
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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.