The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Evolution, old and newJ. Cape, 1924 |
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... ORGAN- ISM - THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNCON- SCIOUS 38 VI . SCHEME OF THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK - HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION 53 VII . PRE - BUFFONIAN EVOLUTION , AND SOME GER- MAN WRITERS 60 VIII . BUFFON - MEMOIR 65 IX ...
... ORGAN- ISM - THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNCON- SCIOUS 38 VI . SCHEME OF THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK - HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION 53 VII . PRE - BUFFONIAN EVOLUTION , AND SOME GER- MAN WRITERS 60 VIII . BUFFON - MEMOIR 65 IX ...
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... organs , or living tools - for there is no well - developed organ of any living being which is not used by its possessor as an instrument or tool for the effecting of some purpose which he considers or has considered for his advantage ...
... organs , or living tools - for there is no well - developed organ of any living being which is not used by its possessor as an instrument or tool for the effecting of some purpose which he considers or has considered for his advantage ...
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... organ , we will say , as the eye , and the sight which is affected by it , as in no way due to the design or plan of a living intelli- gent being , but as caused simply by the accumulation , one upon another , of an almost infinite ...
... organ , we will say , as the eye , and the sight which is affected by it , as in no way due to the design or plan of a living intelli- gent being , but as caused simply by the accumulation , one upon another , of an almost infinite ...
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... organs are a formidable obstacle to this theory . And , indeed , anyone who makes a really close study of the organization and mode of life of the various animals and plants , ... must necessarily come to the conclusion , that this ...
... organs are a formidable obstacle to this theory . And , indeed , anyone who makes a really close study of the organization and mode of life of the various animals and plants , ... must necessarily come to the conclusion , that this ...
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... organs would have been found to comprise one corkscrew at the least , and possibly two , twenty , or ten thousand ; even as we see that the trowel , without which the beaver cannot plaster its habitation in such fashion as alone ...
... organs would have been found to comprise one corkscrew at the least , and possibly two , twenty , or ten thousand ; even as we see that the trowel , without which the beaver cannot plaster its habitation in such fashion as alone ...
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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...