A Scotch Verdict in Re EvolutionJ. W. Lovell Company, 1885 - 108 pages |
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... Species " thus : There is a 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 , while this planet has been circling on , according to the ...
... Species " thus : There is a 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 , while this planet has been circling on , according to the ...
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... Species , Lecture IV . " In order to explain or get at the cause of complex masses of pheno- mena we must invent a hypothesis , or make what seems a likely supposition respecting their cause . ' " " 200 is meant for criesis Mam Hamison ...
... Species , Lecture IV . " In order to explain or get at the cause of complex masses of pheno- mena we must invent a hypothesis , or make what seems a likely supposition respecting their cause . ' " " 200 is meant for criesis Mam Hamison ...
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... Species , " Lecture VI . ) says : We must , in the first place , be prepared to prove that the supposed causes of the phenomena exist in nature ; that they are what the logicians call vera causæ true causes ; in the next place , we ...
... Species , " Lecture VI . ) says : We must , in the first place , be prepared to prove that the supposed causes of the phenomena exist in nature ; that they are what the logicians call vera causæ true causes ; in the next place , we ...
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... species ? This is what Mr. Darwin taught . Are there facts to sustain this theory ? If so they must be found in the ancient rocks . The appeal is to geology . So far is geology from sustaining this view that it antagonizes it . Mr ...
... species ? This is what Mr. Darwin taught . Are there facts to sustain this theory ? If so they must be found in the ancient rocks . The appeal is to geology . So far is geology from sustaining this view that it antagonizes it . Mr ...
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... species , and makes his classification as readily as if he were dealing in the daily contributions gathered by a class in botany from our common groves in the month of June ( see Wilber's " Nebraska " ) . Now , what do scientific men ...
... species , and makes his classification as readily as if he were dealing in the daily contributions gathered by a class in botany from our common groves in the month of June ( see Wilber's " Nebraska " ) . Now , what do scientific men ...
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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.