The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Data, Its Principles, Its Speculations, and Its Theistic BearingsHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 148 pages |
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... organic types to their present status . But we can never be- lieve that these results have been attained under any law but the supreme law of free intelligence . No evidence can be stronger than that which convinces us that 1 * PREFACE ...
... organic types to their present status . But we can never be- lieve that these results have been attained under any law but the supreme law of free intelligence . No evidence can be stronger than that which convinces us that 1 * PREFACE ...
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... Organic Types . ( 1 ) Gradual Advance of the Series . ( 2 ) Structural Relationships of Successive Forms . 2. Prophetic and Retrospective Types . III . AN EVOLUTION OF IDEAS EXISTS . IV . IS THERE A GENETIC EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC TYPES ...
... Organic Types . ( 1 ) Gradual Advance of the Series . ( 2 ) Structural Relationships of Successive Forms . 2. Prophetic and Retrospective Types . III . AN EVOLUTION OF IDEAS EXISTS . IV . IS THERE A GENETIC EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC TYPES ...
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... Types of Animals still exist . ( i ) Changed Conditions cause Destruction or Migra- tion . ( 2 ) In the Field of the ... Organic Modifications have regard to Ideal Con- cepts . ( aa ) Diverse Conformation under identical Condi- tions . ( bb ) ...
... Types of Animals still exist . ( i ) Changed Conditions cause Destruction or Migra- tion . ( 2 ) In the Field of the ... Organic Modifications have regard to Ideal Con- cepts . ( aa ) Diverse Conformation under identical Condi- tions . ( bb ) ...
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... Organic World : ( 1 ) Teaching of the Historical Unity of Phenomena . ( 2 ) If Specific Derivation be proven , then ... Methods . ( bb ) Irrefragable Basis of certain Religious Prop- ositions . ( c ) Creation Mediate , and not Immediate ...
... Organic World : ( 1 ) Teaching of the Historical Unity of Phenomena . ( 2 ) If Specific Derivation be proven , then ... Methods . ( bb ) Irrefragable Basis of certain Religious Prop- ositions . ( c ) Creation Mediate , and not Immediate ...
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... organic types are interesting in themselves , and on account of their supposed bearing on the question of derivation . The first fact which impresses us , and one on which all evolutionists have rested with much stress , is the ...
... organic types are interesting in themselves , and on account of their supposed bearing on the question of derivation . The first fact which impresses us , and one on which all evolutionists have rested with much stress , is the ...
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The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Data, Its Principles, Its Speculations, and ... Alexander Winchell No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 119 - 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.