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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... writes , and he writes with all the self - complacency of the leader of the mutual improvement society . I know not that what he writes can be called specially good . There are not a few weak spots in the fortress of Zoonomia , and ...
... writes , and he writes with all the self - complacency of the leader of the mutual improvement society . I know not that what he writes can be called specially good . There are not a few weak spots in the fortress of Zoonomia , and ...
الصفحة 32
... write Dr. Darwin again- “ DEAR SIR , —I am extremely sorry that , after having placed you in that disagreeable state of suspense which the unexpected attack of a stranger must in some degree occasion , the transmission of the manuscript ...
... write Dr. Darwin again- “ DEAR SIR , —I am extremely sorry that , after having placed you in that disagreeable state of suspense which the unexpected attack of a stranger must in some degree occasion , the transmission of the manuscript ...
الصفحة 34
... write English well if you would lay aside the nonsense of metaphors- metaphors , in an argumentative philosophical treatise , are a disgrace . " This of December 20 , seems in reply to Dr. Brown of the 5th ; and on the 28th Brown's pen ...
... write English well if you would lay aside the nonsense of metaphors- metaphors , in an argumentative philosophical treatise , are a disgrace . " This of December 20 , seems in reply to Dr. Brown of the 5th ; and on the 28th Brown's pen ...
الصفحة 36
... write the life of Dr. Darwin here , but only to signalise such traits in connection therewith as may prove illustrative on the general theme . It is still worth while knowing , how- ever , that , born in 1731 , Dr. Erasmus died in 1802 ...
... write the life of Dr. Darwin here , but only to signalise such traits in connection therewith as may prove illustrative on the general theme . It is still worth while knowing , how- ever , that , born in 1731 , Dr. Erasmus died in 1802 ...
الصفحة 37
... writes to his son that he thinks of publishing it " in hopes of selling it ; " and we have already seen how concerned he was that Dr. Thomas Brown ( not then Dr. ) should know how much improved a professional reputation his Zoonomia had ...
... writes to his son that he thinks of publishing it " in hopes of selling it ; " and we have already seen how concerned he was that Dr. Thomas Brown ( not then Dr. ) should know how much improved a professional reputation his Zoonomia had ...
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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.