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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... question was a Gratulationsheft , or special congratulatory issue in honour of my father's birthday , so that Dr. Krause's essay , glorifying the older evolutionist , was quite in its place . He wrote to Dr. Krause , thanking him ...
... question was a Gratulationsheft , or special congratulatory issue in honour of my father's birthday , so that Dr. Krause's essay , glorifying the older evolutionist , was quite in its place . He wrote to Dr. Krause , thanking him ...
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... question , even if true . " Dr. Erasmus Darwin had an overpowering tendency , " writes Charles Darwin , " to theorise and generalise ; " and this is almost the theme , we may say , that Dr. Krause sets himself to expound and expand ...
... question , even if true . " Dr. Erasmus Darwin had an overpowering tendency , " writes Charles Darwin , " to theorise and generalise ; " and this is almost the theme , we may say , that Dr. Krause sets himself to expound and expand ...
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... questions that for ages had been a subject of contention among philosophers ; " while , as for the Inquiry itself , it has been " matured and perfected into one of the most elegant and profound works on the philosophy of mind that has ...
... questions that for ages had been a subject of contention among philosophers ; " while , as for the Inquiry itself , it has been " matured and perfected into one of the most elegant and profound works on the philosophy of mind that has ...
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... question has had , to use the dialect , its " votaries " in Scotland , actually , for the best part of a century ! It is Hume that is credited with the proposition ; and there is no such proposition in Hume . Hume knows , and never ...
... question has had , to use the dialect , its " votaries " in Scotland , actually , for the best part of a century ! It is Hume that is credited with the proposition ; and there is no such proposition in Hume . Hume knows , and never ...
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... for a well - polished Humian smile ! 1 The whole of Political Economy pretty well sums itself in the single category - the single question - What will pay ? Brown closes the trinity of the Scotch philosophers ; and 20 DARWINIANISM .
... for a well - polished Humian smile ! 1 The whole of Political Economy pretty well sums itself in the single category - the single question - What will pay ? Brown closes the trinity of the Scotch philosophers ; and 20 DARWINIANISM .
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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.