The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Evolution, old and newJ. Cape, 1924 |
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... individuals of many kinds ; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument might be thus formed as superior to one of glass , as the works of the Creator are to those of man ? " 2 The reader will observe that the only skill ...
... individuals of many kinds ; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument might be thus formed as superior to one of glass , as the works of the Creator are to those of man ? " 2 The reader will observe that the only skill ...
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... individuals commonly live longest and transmit most offspring , and that he sees no evid- ence of design in the numerous slight successive 66 alterations " -or variations - which are " caused by variation . " It were easy to multiply ...
... individuals commonly live longest and transmit most offspring , and that he sees no evid- ence of design in the numerous slight successive 66 alterations " -or variations - which are " caused by variation . " It were easy to multiply ...
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... individual of any given generation , but man in the entirety of his existence from the dawn of life onwards to the present moment . like manner we say that the designer of all organisms is so incorporate with the organisms themselves ...
... individual of any given generation , but man in the entirety of his existence from the dawn of life onwards to the present moment . like manner we say that the designer of all organisms is so incorporate with the organisms themselves ...
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... individual ) , and can only be fully sympathized with by those who recognize that if habit be admitted as the key to the fact at all , the unconscious manner in which the habit comes to be repeated is only of a piece with all our other ...
... individual ) , and can only be fully sympathized with by those who recognize that if habit be admitted as the key to the fact at all , the unconscious manner in which the habit comes to be repeated is only of a piece with all our other ...
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... individuals of each genus still represent the same forms as they did in the earliest ages , especially in the case of the larger animals " ( so that the generic forms even of the larger animals prove not to be the same , but only ...
... individuals of each genus still represent the same forms as they did in the earliest ages , especially in the case of the larger animals " ( so that the generic forms even of the larger animals prove not to be the same , but only ...
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¹ Hist ¹ Phil action admit animals animals and plants appear become believe birds body brain breeds Buffon changes chapter Charles Darwin circumstances climate common conditions of existence continues creature declares descent with modification disuse doctrine domestication effect ence Erasmus Darwin evolution eyes fact feel fittest G. H. Lewes Geoffroy St greater habits Hift Hilaire horse Ibid idea individual insects instinct Isidore Geoffroy kind Lamarck less living filament maintains manner matter means of modification memory ment mind mutability of species natural selection Natural Theology nerves observe offspring opinion Origin of Species Pantheism parents passage Patrick Matthew perception Philosophie Zoologique present principle produced Professor Haeckel purpose quadrupeds race reader resemblance sensation sense structure suppose survival teleology things tion varieties vary vegetable Vestiges of Creation volume wings words writes Zool Zoonomia
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10 페이지 - For this reason, and for no other, viz, that, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, eg that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day...
320 페이지 - It has been said that I speak of Natural Selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets ? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity.
204 페이지 - ... the world itself might have been generated, rather than created; that is, it might have been gradually produced from very small beginnings, increasing by the activity of its inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat.
10 페이지 - I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone ? why is it not as admissible in the second case, as in the first ? For this reason, and for no other, viz.
327 페이지 - ... 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...
67 페이지 - abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three, " but the greatest of these is charity.
10 페이지 - I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show 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.
280 페이지 - The self-regulating adaptive disposition of organised life, may, in part, be traced to the extreme fecundity of Nature, who, as before stated, has, in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused by senile decay. As the field of existence is limited and pre-occupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better suited to circumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these...
304 페이지 - Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being...
198 페이지 - A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose...