Unconscious MemoryD. Bogue, 1880 - 288 pages |
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Page 62
... plain that some one besides my- self , of whom I as yet knew nothing , had been writing about the elder Darwin , and had taken much the same line concerning him that I had done . It was for the benefit of this person , then , that Dr ...
... plain that some one besides my- self , of whom I as yet knew nothing , had been writing about the elder Darwin , and had taken much the same line concerning him that I had done . It was for the benefit of this person , then , that Dr ...
Page 65
... plain , therefore , that the article which Mr. Darwin had given was not the one he professed to be giving . I read Mr. Darwin's preface over again to see whe- ther he left himself any loophole . There was not a chink or cranny through ...
... plain , therefore , that the article which Mr. Darwin had given was not the one he professed to be giving . I read Mr. Darwin's preface over again to see whe- ther he left himself any loophole . There was not a chink or cranny through ...
Page 95
... plain he accepts evolution , but it does not appear that he sees how fatal his theory is to any view of evolution except . a teleological one - the purpose residing within . the animal and not without it . There is , how- ever , nothing ...
... plain he accepts evolution , but it does not appear that he sees how fatal his theory is to any view of evolution except . a teleological one - the purpose residing within . the animal and not without it . There is , how- ever , nothing ...
Page 123
... plain that this will constitute a difference of degree , not kind . SO . When we reflect upon the fact that unimportant acquired characteristics can be reproduced in offspring , we are apt to forget that offspring is only a full - sized ...
... plain that this will constitute a difference of degree , not kind . SO . When we reflect upon the fact that unimportant acquired characteristics can be reproduced in offspring , we are apt to forget that offspring is only a full - sized ...
Page 131
... plain we must ascribe both to the brain and body of the new - born infant a far - reaching power of remembering or reproducing things which have already come to their development thousands of times over in the persons of its ancestors ...
... plain we must ascribe both to the brain and body of the new - born infant a far - reaching power of remembering or reproducing things which have already come to their development thousands of times over in the persons of its ancestors ...
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