Darwinianism: Workmen and WorkT. & T. Clark, 1894 - 358 من الصفحات Contains biographical sketches of Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin and Charles Darwin. |
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... Huxley says ; so that he for one , at all events , finds himself at a loss for a middle term when the physical and the metaphysical meet . Whatever be the structure of the ear , it is , in ultimate instance , still a vibration on the ...
... Huxley says ; so that he for one , at all events , finds himself at a loss for a middle term when the physical and the metaphysical meet . Whatever be the structure of the ear , it is , in ultimate instance , still a vibration on the ...
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... Huxley's . Erasmus declares himself to see in such ideas only the fact of impossible minuteness . It is just possible , there- fore , that the grandfather might have rejected the very " gemmules " of his grandson ; who , however , hopes ...
... Huxley's . Erasmus declares himself to see in such ideas only the fact of impossible minuteness . It is just possible , there- fore , that the grandfather might have rejected the very " gemmules " of his grandson ; who , however , hopes ...
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... Huxley , as concerns these theories of the Darwins , carries our regards back to the ancients , " seventy generations " ago . Darwin having " poured new blood into the ancient frame " ( Life and Letters , ii . 180 ) , he can point with ...
... Huxley , as concerns these theories of the Darwins , carries our regards back to the ancients , " seventy generations " ago . Darwin having " poured new blood into the ancient frame " ( Life and Letters , ii . 180 ) , he can point with ...
الصفحة 97
... Huxley , For Heaven's sake don't write an anti - Darwin- ian article ; you would do it so confoundedly well . I have sometimes amused myself with thinking how I could best pitch into myself , and I believe I could give two or three good ...
... Huxley , For Heaven's sake don't write an anti - Darwin- ian article ; you would do it so confoundedly well . I have sometimes amused myself with thinking how I could best pitch into myself , and I believe I could give two or three good ...
الصفحة 105
... Huxley " demurs to his discussion on Classification , and says he has nailed his colours to the mast , " Mr. Darwin can only set his teeth and ( jokingly ) declare , " I will sooner die than give up " ( ii . 243 ) . It is he himself ...
... Huxley " demurs to his discussion on Classification , and says he has nailed his colours to the mast , " Mr. Darwin can only set his teeth and ( jokingly ) declare , " I will sooner die than give up " ( ii . 243 ) . It is he himself ...
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الصفحة 108 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
الصفحة 53 - ... would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity-, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!
الصفحة 14 - The impulse of one billiard ball is attended with motion in the second. This is the whole that appears to the outward senses. The mind feels no sentiment or inward impression from this succession of objects: Consequently, there is not, in any single, particular instance of cause and effect, any thing which can suggest the idea of power or necessary connexion.
الصفحة 79 - Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers (though themselves orthodox) for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality.
الصفحة 227 - I happened to read for amusement 'Malthus on Population', and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work...
الصفحة 241 - 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.
الصفحة 78 - Creed, and a few other books on divinity ; and, as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our creed must be fully accepted.
الصفحة 143 - I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit.
الصفحة 230 - ... natural selection, accumulating those slight variations in all parts of its structure which are in any way useful to it, during any part of its life.
الصفحة 170 - The interest excited was intense, but the subject was too novel and too ominous for the old school to enter the lists, before armouring. After the meeting it was talked over with bated breath : Lyell's approval, and perhaps in a small way mine, as his lieutenant in the affair, rather overawed the Fellows, who would otherwise have flown out against the doctrine.