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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... existence but for those persons who observe phenomena in plants and animals in the most superficial manner . Without going more deeply into the matter , we can see at once that the rudi- mentary organs are a formidable obstacle to this ...
... existence but for those persons who observe phenomena in plants and animals in the most superficial manner . Without going more deeply into the matter , we can see at once that the rudi- mentary organs are a formidable obstacle to this ...
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... existence , no organism with which to think , no bodily mechanism with which to carry his purposes into effect ; whose design is not design inasmuch as it has to contend with no impediments from ignorance or impotence , and who thus ...
... existence , no organism with which to think , no bodily mechanism with which to carry his purposes into effect ; whose design is not design inasmuch as it has to contend with no impediments from ignorance or impotence , and who thus ...
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... existence . " In crossing a heath , " says Paley , " suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer that for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ...
... existence . " In crossing a heath , " says Paley , " suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer that for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ...
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... existence of counsel and design in the formation of the machine , he wants no such intromission or privity . The effect upon the material , the change produced in it , the utility of the change for future applications , abundantly ...
... existence of counsel and design in the formation of the machine , he wants no such intromission or privity . The effect upon the material , the change produced in it , the utility of the change for future applications , abundantly ...
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... existence of counsel and design , except it be by that debility of mind which can trust to its own reasonings in nothing . " * * “ The patella , or knee - pan , is a curious little bone ; in its form and office unlike any other bone in ...
... existence of counsel and design , except it be by that debility of mind which can trust to its own reasonings in nothing . " * * “ The patella , or knee - pan , is a curious little bone ; in its form and office unlike any other bone in ...
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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...