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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... suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer that for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the ...
... suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer that for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the ...
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... suppose the eye formed , would the perception follow ? The same of the other senses . And this ob- jection holds its force , ascribe what you will to the hand of time , to the power of habit , to changes too slow to be observed by man ...
... suppose the eye formed , would the perception follow ? The same of the other senses . And this ob- jection holds its force , ascribe what you will to the hand of time , to the power of habit , to changes too slow to be observed by man ...
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... suppose a bird's nest to be built with . The greater number of the parts of any such engine , are made by the gross as it were like screws and nuts , which are turned out by machinery and in respect of which the labour of design is now ...
... suppose a bird's nest to be built with . The greater number of the parts of any such engine , are made by the gross as it were like screws and nuts , which are turned out by machinery and in respect of which the labour of design is now ...
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... suppose that Buffon really saw no more con- nection than this ? The writer whom we shall pre- sently find † declining to admit any essential difference between the skeletons of man and of the horse , can here see no resemblance between ...
... suppose that Buffon really saw no more con- nection than this ? The writer whom we shall pre- sently find † declining to admit any essential difference between the skeletons of man and of the horse , can here see no resemblance between ...
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... suppose that Buffon did not , in his own mind , and from the first , draw the inference to which he leads his reader , merely because from time to time he tells the reader , with a shrug of the shoulders , that he draws no inferences ...
... suppose that Buffon did not , in his own mind , and from the first , draw the inference to which he leads his reader , merely because from time to time he tells the reader , with a shrug of the shoulders , that he draws no inferences ...
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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...