The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Luck, or cunning?J. Cape, 1924 |
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A. R. Wallace accumulation action admit Allen amoeba animals and plants appear believe body Buffon called chapter Charles Darwin common sense connection consciousness continued course cunning Darwin and Lamarck Darwin's theory Darwinian death deny descent with modification difference disuse doctrine doubt doubtless Erasmus Darwin Evolution in Animals experience fact favourable feeling fittest functionally produced modifications Grant Allen Habit Herbert Spencer ideas individual inherited memory instinct intelligence Lamarckian less living luck main means mainly matter Mental Evolution mind natural selection naturalist neo-Darwinism never non-living opinion organic modification Origin of Species passage philosophers principle Professor Hering Professor Hering's Professor Ray Lankester protoplasm quoted race reader regarded Romanes Samuel Butler Shrewsbury Edition Spencer substance successive suppose survival theory of descent theory of natural things thought tion unconscious memory understand Vestiges Vestiges of Creation words writing
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Page 115 - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there : if I go down to hell, thou art there also. If I take the wings of the morning : and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea ; Even there also shall thy hand lead me : and thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 114 - O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Page 174 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 153 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained; and which I formerly entertained — namely, that each species has been independently created — is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable ; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged...
Page 74 - ... may we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man?
Page 83 - Fifthly, from their first rudiment, or primordium, to the termination of their lives, all animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions in consequence of their desires and aversions, of their pleasures and their pains, or of irritations, or of associations; and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity.
Page 144 - On my return home, it occurred to me — in 1837 — that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes.
Page 137 - From the facts alluded to in the first chapter, I think there can be no doubt that use in our domestic animals has strengthened and enlarged certain parts, and disuse diminished them ; and that such modifications are inherited.
Page 114 - Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I go then from thy presence? If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: If I go down to hell, thou art there also.
Page 73 - ... to produce a distincter image. We must suppose each new state of the instrument to be multiplied by the million, each to be preserved until a better one is produced, and then the old ones to be all destroyed. In living bodies variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural selection will pick out with unerring skill each improvement.