Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of mr. Charles Darwin. Op. 4 |
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... believe that any living being made the eagle's eye out of something which was not an eye nor anything like one , or that this living being im planted this particular eye of all others in the eagle's head , as being most in accordance ...
... believe that any living being made the eagle's eye out of something which was not an eye nor anything like one , or that this living being im planted this particular eye of all others in the eagle's head , as being most in accordance ...
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... believe in which there is no contrivance ; who has a familiar name , but nothing beyond a name which any human sense has ever been able to perceive - this is an abuse of words - an attempt to palm off a shadow upon our understandings as ...
... believe in which there is no contrivance ; who has a familiar name , but nothing beyond a name which any human sense has ever been able to perceive - this is an abuse of words - an attempt to palm off a shadow upon our understandings as ...
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... millions of years , and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds ; and * Origin of Species , ' p . 146 , ed . 1876 . may we not believe that a living optical instrument might 8 EVOLUTION , OLD AND NEW .
... millions of years , and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds ; and * Origin of Species , ' p . 146 , ed . 1876 . may we not believe that a living optical instrument might 8 EVOLUTION , OLD AND NEW .
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... believe , however , that even without quotation the reader would have recognized * Origin of Species , ' p . 146 , ed . 1876 . † Page 49 . Vie et Doctrine scientifique d'Etienne Geoffroy de St. Hilaire , ' by Isidore Geoffroy de St ...
... believe , however , that even without quotation the reader would have recognized * Origin of Species , ' p . 146 , ed . 1876 . † Page 49 . Vie et Doctrine scientifique d'Etienne Geoffroy de St. Hilaire , ' by Isidore Geoffroy de St ...
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... believe , had a tem- porary effect in turning attention from the solid and irrefragable argument so well put forward in that excel- lent old book . But overpoweringly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie all around us ...
... believe , had a tem- porary effect in turning attention from the solid and irrefragable argument so well put forward in that excel- lent old book . But overpoweringly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie all around us ...
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Page 230 - ... 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!
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Page 331 - ... any existing species — animal or vegetable — when placed under conditions different from its previous ones, immediately begins to undergo certain changes of structure fitting it for the new conditions. They can show that in successive generations these changes continue, until ultimately the new conditions become the natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, in domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place.
Page 364 - In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, Natural Selection is a false term; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it in preference combines.
Page 25 - Introduction, explaining the purpose of the present Course, and its use in Schools, or for Home Study. — Part II. Lecture I. The first Elements of Mechanical Physics. Lecture II. Mechanical Physics (continued). — Part III. Lecture III. Mechanical Physics (concluded}. Lecture IV. Chemical Physics.— Part IV.
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Page 12 - ... the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew the watch might have always been there.
Page 375 - ... the wingless condition of so many Madeira beetles is mainly due to the action of natural selection, combined probably with disuse. For during many successive generations each individual beetle which flew least, either from its wings having been ever so little less perfectly developed or from indolent habit, will have had the best chance of surviving from not being blown out to sea...