Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles DarwinD. Appleton, 1884 - 351 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xiv
... Blushing 291 Blushing not necessarily an Expression of Guilt 293 Blushing accounted for 294 A New Argument for a Single Parent - Stock 296 XIV . THE PROVISIONAL HYPOTHESIS OF PANGENESIS . Functional Independence of the Units of the Body ...
... Blushing 291 Blushing not necessarily an Expression of Guilt 293 Blushing accounted for 294 A New Argument for a Single Parent - Stock 296 XIV . THE PROVISIONAL HYPOTHESIS OF PANGENESIS . Functional Independence of the Units of the Body ...
الصفحة 291
... blush . The reddening of the face from a blush is due to the relaxation of the muscular coats of the small arteries , by which the capillaries be- come filled with blood ; and this depends on the proper vaso - motor center being ...
... blush . The reddening of the face from a blush is due to the relaxation of the muscular coats of the small arteries , by which the capillaries be- come filled with blood ; and this depends on the proper vaso - motor center being ...
الصفحة 293
... blusher believes , ever excite a blush . The explanation of this difference between the knowledge by God and man of our actions lies , I presume , in man's disapprobation of immoral conduct being some- what akin in nature to his ...
... blusher believes , ever excite a blush . The explanation of this difference between the knowledge by God and man of our actions lies , I presume , in man's disapprobation of immoral conduct being some- what akin in nature to his ...
الصفحة 294
... blush . For instance , a lady by herself may give money to a beg- gar without a trace of a blush , but if others are present , and she doubts whether they approve , or suspects that they think her influenced by display , she will blush ...
... blush . For instance , a lady by herself may give money to a beg- gar without a trace of a blush , but if others are present , and she doubts whether they approve , or suspects that they think her influenced by display , she will blush ...
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة i - 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.
الصفحة 347 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled 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, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
الصفحة 110 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
الصفحة 72 - The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense he may be said to have made for himself useful breeds.
الصفحة 254 - It is incredible that all these facts should speak falsely. He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation.
الصفحة 44 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures.
الصفحة 308 - But as my conclusions have lately been much misrepresented, and it has been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction — the following words: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not thé exclusive means of modification.