Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of mr. Charles Darwin. Op. 4London, 1882 - 430 pages |
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... consequence . As for authors , it is unnecessary to go farther back than Lord Beaconsfield , Thackeray , Dickens , and Scott , to feel how much obliged we should have been to any custom that should have compelled them to number their ...
... consequence . As for authors , it is unnecessary to go farther back than Lord Beaconsfield , Thackeray , Dickens , and Scott , to feel how much obliged we should have been to any custom that should have compelled them to number their ...
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... observing the manner in which plants and animals act and with the consequences that are legitimately deducible from their action . CHAPTER II . THE TELEOLOGY OF PALEY AND THE THEOLOGIANS STATEMENT OF THE QUESTION AT ISSUE . II.
... observing the manner in which plants and animals act and with the consequences that are legitimately deducible from their action . CHAPTER II . THE TELEOLOGY OF PALEY AND THE THEOLOGIANS STATEMENT OF THE QUESTION AT ISSUE . II.
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... consequences so injurious , their path is in those parts protected with peculiar care ; and that by a provision in the figure of the bones them- selves . The nerves which supply the fore arm , espe- cially the inferior cubital nerves ...
... consequences so injurious , their path is in those parts protected with peculiar care ; and that by a provision in the figure of the bones them- selves . The nerves which supply the fore arm , espe- cially the inferior cubital nerves ...
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... consequence the designer , but would probably ask a little time for reflection before he ventured to say who , or what , or where the designer was . Then gaining some insight into the manner in which the deed had been drawn , he would ...
... consequence the designer , but would probably ask a little time for reflection before he ventured to say who , or what , or where the designer was . Then gaining some insight into the manner in which the deed had been drawn , he would ...
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... consequences of those premises which I am endeavouring to re - establish . But it must not be supposed that an animal or plant has ever conceived the idea of some organ widely different from any it was yet possessed of , and has set ...
... consequences of those premises which I am endeavouring to re - establish . But it must not be supposed that an animal or plant has ever conceived the idea of some organ widely different from any it was yet possessed of , and has set ...
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Page 228 - ... would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity-, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!
Page 363 - So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us.
Page ii - THE FAIR HAVEN. A Work in Defence of the Miraculous Element in our Lord's Ministry. Cr. 8vo. , 7*. 6d. LIFE AND HABIT. An Essay after a Completer View of Evolution. Cr. 8vo., 7s. 6d EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW.
Page 9 - LSA, &c. FOOD CHART, giving the Names, Classification, Composition, Elementary Value, rates of Digestibility, Adulterations, Tests, &c., of the Alimentary substances in general use.
Page 360 - In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, Natural Selection is a false term; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it in preference combines.
Page 246 - The work, from its powerful and brilliant style, though displaying in the earlier editions little accurate knowledge and a great want of scientific caution, immediately had a very wide circulation. In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views.
Page 21 - BONAPARTE. NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION, completed by the insertion of above One Hundred Birds omitted in the original Work, and Illustrated by valuable Notes, and Life of the Author, by Sir WILLIAM JARDINE.
Page 18 - Drawing of every British Plant. Edited and brought up to the Present Standard of Scientific Knowledge by T. BOSWELL (formerly SYME), LL.DFLS, &c. With Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by Mrs. LANKESTEB, Author of " Wild Flowers Worth Notice," " The British Ferns,
Page 12 - ... the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew the watch might have always been there.
Page 371 - ... the wingless condition of so many Madeira beetles is mainly due to the action of natural selection, combined probably with disuse. For during many successive generations each individual beetle which flew least, either from its wings having been ever so little less perfectly developed or from indolent habit, will have had the best chance of surviving from not being blown out to sea...