 | Church congress - 1889 - 612 lehte
...the animal world. It is a pleasure to be able to quote Mr. Wallace in reference to this point : — " The special faculties we have been discussing, clearly...— something which we may best refer to as being of the spiritual essence or nature, capable of progressive development under favourable conditions. On... | |
 | 1891 - 874 lehte
...physical world is a spiritual universe, ever acting on matter in conformity with tlic laws of life. " The special faculties we have been discussing, clearly...or nature, capable of progressive development under favorable conditions. On the hypothesis of this spiiitual nature, superadded to the animal nature of... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1891 - 738 lehte
...explain the observed facts. Dr. Wallace offers a very different explanation, and holds that the facts " clearly point to the existence in man of something...or nature, capable of progressive development under favorable conditions." On the other hand, Mr. Galton, although leaning strongly against the doctrine... | |
 | 1891 - 1064 lehte
...(p. 474) that these special faculties clearly point to the existence in man of something which lie has not derived from his animal progenitors, something...progressive development under favourable conditions. The meaning of this is not very clear, but I understand Mr. Wallace to suppose that human spirit has... | |
 | Samuel Henry Kellogg - 1892 - 312 lehte
...suffice to account for the animal characteristics, whether mental or bodily, of man. He says : " These special faculties we have been discussing, clearly...refer to as being of a spiritual essence or nature. . . . These faculties could not possibly, have been developed by means of the same laws which have... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1892 - 398 lehte
...evolution hardly distinguishable from creation. Wallace finds their only explanation in the hypothesis of " a spiritual essence or nature, capable of progressive development under favourable conditions." HERBERT SPENCER must surely have been an evolutionist by birth ; there was no hesitation even in the... | |
 | 1893 - 942 lehte
...something in man which materialism cannot account for is clearly acknowledged. On the other hand, that " something " which we may " best refer to as being...capable of progressive development under favourable circumstances," * is seen to have been in fact thus developing through the despised animal progenitors,... | |
 | 1894 - 584 lehte
...been developed by the same causes onlv." " Darwinism," pp. 461,463. " These special faculties . . .. clearly point to the existence in man of something which he has not derived from his animal progenitors—something which we may best refer to as being of a spiritual essence or nature. . . .... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1895 - 60 lehte
...extraordinary hairy race of men, see Alone with the /fairy Ainu, by AH Savage Landor, 1893. J E. g. " The special faculties we have been discussing clearly...or nature, capable of progressive development under favorable conditions. On the hypothesis of this spiritual nature, superadded to the animal nature of... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1895 - 380 lehte
...advocate as against the utilitarian l. It comes, then, to this. According to Mr. Wallace's 1 E. g. " The special faculties we have been discussing clearly...progenitors— something which we may best refer to at being of a spiritual essence or nature, capable of progressive development under favourable conditions.... | |
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The special faculties we have been discussing clearly point to the existence in man of something which he has not derived from his animal progenitors — something which we may best refer to as being of a spiritual essence or nature, capable of progressive... 
