The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 10James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1871 - Science |
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... natural inference from these words would be that Mr. Darwin considered his theory of natural selection as sufficient to account for all the varieties of life on the face of the earth . But it is not a necessary inference . For he is ...
... natural inference from these words would be that Mr. Darwin considered his theory of natural selection as sufficient to account for all the varieties of life on the face of the earth . But it is not a necessary inference . For he is ...
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... natural selection is sufficient to pro- duce all the necessary modifications , but so far as express words go , he has not excluded - at any rate in the passage which I have quoted - the possibility of the co - operation or interference ...
... natural selection is sufficient to pro- duce all the necessary modifications , but so far as express words go , he has not excluded - at any rate in the passage which I have quoted - the possibility of the co - operation or interference ...
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... Natural selection is like . fortune ; it favours only the brave ; it helps those only who can help themselves ; it rejects the weak , the puny , the ill- provided , and ill - adapted ; and its effect is best described as the survival of ...
... Natural selection is like . fortune ; it favours only the brave ; it helps those only who can help themselves ; it rejects the weak , the puny , the ill- provided , and ill - adapted ; and its effect is best described as the survival of ...
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... natural selection ? Is it not , on the contrary , quite plain that the very reverse would be the case ? The accidental possessor of this smooth ... natural selection acts . Hence it NATURAL SELECTION INSUFFICIENT TO DEVELOPMENT OF MAN . 17.
... natural selection ? Is it not , on the contrary , quite plain that the very reverse would be the case ? The accidental possessor of this smooth ... natural selection acts . Hence it NATURAL SELECTION INSUFFICIENT TO DEVELOPMENT OF MAN . 17.
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... natural selection acts . Hence it happens that the transformation of one kind into another is a very slow and gradual process , because it has to be accom- plished by a series of very small steps . A long step cannot be taken unless it ...
... natural selection acts . Hence it happens that the transformation of one kind into another is a very slow and gradual process , because it has to be accom- plished by a series of very small steps . A long step cannot be taken unless it ...
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Page 256 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores ; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make...
Page 116 - WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 & 1862} Is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn...
Page 14 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 256 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Page 14 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 116 - ... its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which cannot fail to fit...