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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... idea of the evolution of one species from another , and all from an initial form of life , adds any new per- plexity to theism . " -- Natural Science and Religion , PP . 64 , 80 , 83 , 106 . This kind of evolution Joseph Cook calls " a ...
... idea of the evolution of one species from another , and all from an initial form of life , adds any new per- plexity to theism . " -- Natural Science and Religion , PP . 64 , 80 , 83 , 106 . This kind of evolution Joseph Cook calls " a ...
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... idea of a bar of iron moving from a state of rest and being forcibly drawn toward a distant magnet , without acknowledging the existence of some substance of a real of grass , grain of sand , or creeping thing 28 The Problem of Human Life :
... idea of a bar of iron moving from a state of rest and being forcibly drawn toward a distant magnet , without acknowledging the existence of some substance of a real of grass , grain of sand , or creeping thing 28 The Problem of Human Life :
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... idea of immortality can be predicated . To suppose that the human soul is bodiless , formless , and organless , is a thought about as unsatisfactory as to try to conceive of the immortality of a rubber balloon . How can an immortality ...
... idea of immortality can be predicated . To suppose that the human soul is bodiless , formless , and organless , is a thought about as unsatisfactory as to try to conceive of the immortality of a rubber balloon . How can an immortality ...
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... idea that tain of life and mentality , it is easily and you had received such an impression . rationally conceivable that our individual Hence the idea of the existence of the im- life and mentality came originally as drops pression ...
... idea that tain of life and mentality , it is easily and you had received such an impression . rationally conceivable that our individual Hence the idea of the existence of the im- life and mentality came originally as drops pression ...
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... idea of the impression and his fancy about the idea , were all real , or else were nothing at all . The fact that these eminent metaphys- ical philosophers have finally reached the conclusion and set it down that the mental impression ...
... idea of the impression and his fancy about the idea , were all real , or else were nothing at all . The fact that these eminent metaphys- ical philosophers have finally reached the conclusion and set it down that the mental impression ...
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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.