Scientific Sophisms: A Review of Current Theories Concerning Atoms, Apes and MenHodder and Stoughton, 1881 - 310 pages |
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... derived from " analogy , " has never been verified . How could it be verified , when its most ardent apostles assure us that it may , after all , " be wrong , " and will " certainly " have to " undergo modifica- tion ? " 2 But even if ...
... derived from " analogy , " has never been verified . How could it be verified , when its most ardent apostles assure us that it may , after all , " be wrong , " and will " certainly " have to " undergo modifica- tion ? " 2 But even if ...
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... derived from the experience of mankind or from the geolo- gical record , there is no fragment whatever . 2 Mr. Darwin himself , as shown above , is so far from pretending that his theory has re- ceived any " verification , " as to ...
... derived from the experience of mankind or from the geolo- gical record , there is no fragment whatever . 2 Mr. Darwin himself , as shown above , is so far from pretending that his theory has re- ceived any " verification , " as to ...
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... derived from them - if only they them- selves could have been made to stand - it might have stood ; but with their fall , it also comes to the ground . Its relation to them renders its . fate inevitable . The instability of the super ...
... derived from them - if only they them- selves could have been made to stand - it might have stood ; but with their fall , it also comes to the ground . Its relation to them renders its . fate inevitable . The instability of the super ...
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... derive higher worms , and the articulata generally . Professor Huxley , summarizing and review- ing this volume of Haeckel's , is careful to express his " entire concurrence with the general tenor and spirit of the work , " and his ...
... derive higher worms , and the articulata generally . Professor Huxley , summarizing and review- ing this volume of Haeckel's , is careful to express his " entire concurrence with the general tenor and spirit of the work , " and his ...
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... derived from antecedent life , and life derived from some- thing that was not alive , Professor Huxley " cannot understand how choice can be , even for a moment , doubtful . " And " this convic- tion " of his he " cannot express too ...
... derived from antecedent life , and life derived from some- thing that was not alive , Professor Huxley " cannot understand how choice can be , even for a moment , doubtful . " And " this convic- tion " of his he " cannot express too ...
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Abraham of scientific absolutely admit agnostic Evolution Agnosticism ammonia analogy assertion Atheism atoms beginning Belfast Address believe carbonic acid Carl Semper cell CHAPTER Charles Darwin chasm chemical chemistry complex compounds conception consciousness cosmic vapour creation Critiques and Addresses Darwin difference distinct doctrine of Evolution doubt Elam Ernst Haeckel eternal evidence existence fact figment forces forms Fortnightly Review Fragments of Science going complex Haeckel Herbert Spencer human Huxley's hydrogen Ibid identical imagination inorganic intellectual less life-matter living matter living protoplasm Lucretius Materialism merely mind modification molecular molecules Monera Natural Selection nucleated vesicle organic Origin of Species oxygen phenomena physical basis plants plasm possessed present primordial produced Prof Professor Huxley Professor Tyndall properties proto protoplasm puerile hypothesis question reason scientific levity SOPHISMS Spencer spontaneous structure substance suppose tells theory tion tissues Transmutation of Species true Tyndall's verification vitality words xxii
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Page 150 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 15 - 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 46 - He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
Page 15 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Page 16 - I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 20 - A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has "gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that He required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of His laws.
Page 30 - But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
Page 201 - None of the processes of Nature, since the time when Nature began, have produced the slightest difference in the properties of any molecule.
Page 70 - At all events, no line has ever been drawn between the conscious and the unconscious ; for the vegetable shades into the animal by such fine gradations, that it is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins.
Page 91 - By an intellectual necessity I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that Matter which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of all terrestrial Life.