Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another... The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species - Page 26by Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 386 lehteFull view - About this book
| Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 lehte
...conditions of life, and should plainly bea the stamp of tar higher workmanship?" Again, "I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and...long course of time by nature's power of selection." And Mr. Wallace concludes his memoir by stating that " there appears no reason to assign any definite... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 786 lehte
...may be," says our author, "if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, / can sce no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and...long course of time by nature's power of selection." We have given but the theme of thia timely and excellent work, which brings with it inevitably the... | |
| 1860 - 532 lehte
...process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and...long course of time by nature's power of selection." in past and present forma of life, are undoubtedly the strongest arguments in favour of Darwin's theory... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - 612 lehte
...animal, have descended from some half-dozen progenitors, or even from a single prototype. " I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the «¡adaptations between all organic beings one with another, and with their physical conditions of... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 lehte
...process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, 1 can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and...long course of time by nature's power of selection. Extinction. — This subject will be more fully discussed in our chapter on Geology ; but it must be... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 lehte
...process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit. to the amount of change, to the beauty and...long course of time by nature's power of selection. Extinction. — This subject will be more fully discussed in our chapter on Geology ; but it must be... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 406 lehte
...beautiful in nature to the Creator, such language is — And in this magnificent sentence : ' I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and...which may be effected in the long course of time by — the Sequence of Events as ascertained by us ' (113). The epitome of all this may be taken in these... | |
| James Harrison Rigg - 1871 - 60 lehte
...must be incomparably greater, and competent to produce incomparably superior effects in respect of "the beauty and infinite complexity of the co-adaptations...another, and with their physical conditions of life." Language of a similar sort he very frequently uses. He has, therefore, as a scientific man 32 laid... | |
| Christian Evidence Society - 1871 - 552 lehte
...must be incomparably greater, and competent to produce incomparably superior effects in respect of "the beauty and infinite complexity of the co-adaptations...another, and with their physical conditions of life." Language of a similar sort he very frequently uses. He has, therefore, as a scientific man laid himself... | |
| Manthano (pseud.) - 1872 - 396 lehte
...matter, and I continue to ask ; who originated, stored, and launched the germinal powers from which " the beauty and infinite complexity of the co-adaptations...another, and with their physical conditions of life," have proceeded ? A law is not a power, but an appointment; who gave law to creation and existences... | |
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