The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution Evolved," with a Review of the Six Great Modern Scientists, Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, Haeckel, Helmholtz, and MayerHall and Company, 1880 - 512페이지 |
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... actually go further , and make the astounding an- nouncement that there is nothing antago- nistic between spontaneous generation and This culmination of obsequious absurdity in truckling to the claims of modern sci- ence , will be found ...
... actually go further , and make the astounding an- nouncement that there is nothing antago- nistic between spontaneous generation and This culmination of obsequious absurdity in truckling to the claims of modern sci- ence , will be found ...
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... actually deter- mines its course , turning to the right or left , by which it walks or runs , stops or moves on ; and who planned that delicate and complex furnace within the organic body of this living engine , by means of which ...
... actually deter- mines its course , turning to the right or left , by which it walks or runs , stops or moves on ; and who planned that delicate and complex furnace within the organic body of this living engine , by means of which ...
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... beings ; and then it is equally rational that our in- terior , incorporeal entity after recovering consciousness may actually continue on forever in a state of personal activity , as all Matter , Substance , Force , Life , Etc. 37.
... beings ; and then it is equally rational that our in- terior , incorporeal entity after recovering consciousness may actually continue on forever in a state of personal activity , as all Matter , Substance , Force , Life , Etc. 37.
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... actually exist beyond the range of man's senses , alone by its observed effects upon the dog . But how obtuse his reasoning powers become when befogged by his materialistic philosophy as he reasons about the life and mind of man ! He ...
... actually exist beyond the range of man's senses , alone by its observed effects upon the dog . But how obtuse his reasoning powers become when befogged by his materialistic philosophy as he reasons about the life and mind of man ! He ...
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... actually re- turned to himself in Philadelphia and re- peated in synchronous harmony with his own instrument , and with compand delight . To say , as do materialists , that this life- current and soul - essence are nothing but a very ...
... actually re- turned to himself in Philadelphia and re- peated in synchronous harmony with his own instrument , and with compand delight . To say , as do materialists , that this life- current and soul - essence are nothing but a very ...
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396 페이지 - What limit can be put to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each creature, — favouring the good and rejecting the bad?
29 페이지 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
452 페이지 - If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?
452 페이지 - Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life.
396 페이지 - Not one man in a thousand has accuracy of eye and judgment sufficient to become an eminent breeder. If gifted with these qualities, and he studies his subject for years, and devotes his lifetime to it with indomitable perseverance, he will succeed, and may make great improvements; if he wants any of these qualities, he will assuredly fail.
263 페이지 - In the earlier ages of the church it held that the earth was the center of the universe, and that the sun. moon, and stars revolved around it.
445 페이지 - And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
396 페이지 - Let this process go on for millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man ? Modes of Transition.
100 페이지 - Imagine one of the prongs of the vibrating fork swiftly advancing. It compresses the air immediately in front of it, and when it retreats it leaves a partial vacuum behind, the process being repeated at every subsequent advance and retreat.
370 페이지 - Ontogeny is a recapitulation of Phylogeny ; or, somewhat more explicitly : that the series of forms through which the individual organism passes during its progress from the egg cell to its fully developed state, is a brief, compressed reproduction of the long series of forms through which the animal ancestors of that organism (or the ancestral forms of its species) have passed from the earliest periods of so-called organic creation down to the present time.