The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Evolution, old and newJ. Cape, 1924 |
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... turning attention from the solid and irrefragable argument so well put forward in that excellent old book . But overpower- ingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie all around us , " 1 etc. Sir William Thomson goes on ...
... turning attention from the solid and irrefragable argument so well put forward in that excellent old book . But overpower- ingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie all around us , " 1 etc. Sir William Thomson goes on ...
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... TURN FOR A WHILE TO PALEY , TO whom Sir W. Thomson has referred us . His work should be so well known that an apology is almost due for quoting it , yet I think it likely that at least nine out of ten of my readers will ( like myself ...
... TURN FOR A WHILE TO PALEY , TO whom Sir W. Thomson has referred us . His work should be so well known that an apology is almost due for quoting it , yet I think it likely that at least nine out of ten of my readers will ( like myself ...
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... turns round the box . We next observe a flexible chain ( artificially wrought for the sake of flexure ) communicating the action of the spring from the box to the fusee . We then find a series of wheels the teeth of which catch in , and ...
... turns round the box . We next observe a flexible chain ( artificially wrought for the sake of flexure ) communicating the action of the spring from the box to the fusee . We then find a series of wheels the teeth of which catch in , and ...
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... turning itself round upon the body to a certain extent , the quadrant , we will say , or rather perhaps a hundred and ... turn . Thus are both motions perfect without interfering with each other . When we nod the head we use the hinge ...
... turning itself round upon the body to a certain extent , the quadrant , we will say , or rather perhaps a hundred and ... turn . Thus are both motions perfect without interfering with each other . When we nod the head we use the hinge ...
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... turn the head round , we use the tenon and mortise , which runs between the first bone of the neck and the second . We see the same contrivance and the same principle employed in the frame or mounting of a telescope . It is occasionally ...
... turn the head round , we use the tenon and mortise , which runs between the first bone of the neck and the second . We see the same contrivance and the same principle employed in the frame or mounting of a telescope . It is occasionally ...
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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...