A Scotch Verdict in Re EvolutionJ. W. Lovell Company, 1885 - 108 pages |
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... flora of the present and that of the past in this formation . Professor Wilber says : The leaves here preserved in stone are so perfect that the skilled botanist at once recognizes every species , and makes his classification as readily ...
... flora of the present and that of the past in this formation . Professor Wilber says : The leaves here preserved in stone are so perfect that the skilled botanist at once recognizes every species , and makes his classification as readily ...
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... flora of any one formation will have a perceptible con- nection with the flora of the next and more ancient formation from which it was evolved . But here , over thousands of square miles , we find a flora absolutely perfect , existing ...
... flora of any one formation will have a perceptible con- nection with the flora of the next and more ancient formation from which it was evolved . But here , over thousands of square miles , we find a flora absolutely perfect , existing ...
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... flora is the dicotyledon leaf . It is not scarce , but appears in meas- ureless abundance . Now , that perfect leaf ... flora with the flora of any similar group . Similar groups are those produced at the same period of development . A ...
... flora is the dicotyledon leaf . It is not scarce , but appears in meas- ureless abundance . Now , that perfect leaf ... flora with the flora of any similar group . Similar groups are those produced at the same period of development . A ...
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... flora of to - day should be different from the flora of five mil- lion years ago , and be more complex . But the Dakota group shows us that the species of those far - off cycles and the species of to- day are identical . No noteworthy ...
... flora of to - day should be different from the flora of five mil- lion years ago , and be more complex . But the Dakota group shows us that the species of those far - off cycles and the species of to- day are identical . No noteworthy ...
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16 Vesey Street ab extra abiogenesis accepted ancestor animals argument assumed atheistic atoms BALL'S CORSETS called Carlyle cause constipated CREDIT FONCIER cretaceous Dakota group Darwin Darwin admits demands descended difficulty doctrine of evolution earth Encyclopædia Britannica eternity of matter evolution be true evolutionist evolved existence facts fittest flora force forms fossil Frederick geology Gluten Suppositories heat homogeneous matter human hypoth hypothesis of evolution inferior inorganic intelligence Jesus John known Lecture living LOVELL'S LIBRARY mass millions mind missing link molecules Mollusks moral sense natural selection naturalists Oliver Cromwell organic Origin of Species perfect phenomena philosopher physical planet Pliocene pothesis Presbyterian Review present produce Professor Huxley proof protoplasm prove question Ruskin scientist Scott Simms Sir William Thomson skull Spencer sphex spontaneous supposed supposition theory of evolution thing Thomas Carlyle TID-BITS tion truth Tyndall says universe verdict Vertebrates Virchow
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Page 19 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 21 - For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished...
Page 72 - And assuredly, there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.
Page 15 - The teleological and the mechanical views of nature are not, necessarily, mutually exclusive. On the contrary, the more purely a mechanist the speculator is, the more firmly does he assume a primordial molecular arrangement of which all the phenomena of the universe...
Page 72 - A Swiss skull of the stone age, found in the lake dwelling of Meilen, corresponded exactly to that of a Swiss youth of the present day. The celebrated Neanderthal skull had a larger circumference than the average, and its capacity, indicating actual mass of brain, is estimated to have been not less than 75 cubic inches, or nearly the average of existing Australian crania.
Page 75 - No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies continuous change, and the molecule is incapable of growth or decay, of generation or destruction.
Page 103 - After much consideration, and with assuredly no bias against Mr. Darwin's views, it is our clear conviction that, as the evidence stands, it is not absolutely proven that a group of animals, having all the characters exhibited by species in Nature, has ever been originated by selection, whether artificial or natural.
Page 11 - This proposition is that the whole world, living and not living, is the result of the mutual interaction, according to definite laws, of the forces (powers) possessed by the molecules of which the primitive nebulosity of the universe was composed.
Page 41 - On the whole we must really acknowledge, that there is a complete absence of any fossil type of a lower stage in the development of man. Nay, if we gather together the whole sum of the fossil men hitherto known, and put them parallel with those of the present time, we can decidedly pronounce that there are among living men a much greater number of individuals who show a relatively inferior type than there are among the fossils known up to this time.
Page 19 - If, therefore, we have traced one force, however minute, to an origin in our own WILL, while we have no knowledge of any other primary cause of force, it does not seem an improbable conclusion that all force may be will-force ; and thus, that the whole universe, is not merely dependent on, but actually is, the WILL of higher intelligences or of one Supreme Intelligence.