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, 1880 - 512페이지 |
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... Cause and Effect , variously elaborated and illustrated . CHAPTER III . Charges of Materialism and Pantheism answered . Correspondence with Rev. Dr. Barr , of Phila- Gelma , and Rev. Dr. Sheldrake , of Tennessee . The Arguments of the ...
... Cause and Effect , variously elaborated and illustrated . CHAPTER III . Charges of Materialism and Pantheism answered . Correspondence with Rev. Dr. Barr , of Phila- Gelma , and Rev. Dr. Sheldrake , of Tennessee . The Arguments of the ...
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... causing His actual being to extend through all extent . This view of God and man gives a the- ist something in the ... cause of form , but is the form itself— the invisible entity that constitutes the living , moving , organic being ...
... causing His actual being to extend through all extent . This view of God and man gives a the- ist something in the ... cause of form , but is the form itself— the invisible entity that constitutes the living , moving , organic being ...
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... cause , and thus , at a single stroke of policy and a single effort of the will , wipe out all the minor problems of the universe . The origin of life and mind lies at the foundation of all other mysteries in the phenomena of Nature ...
... cause , and thus , at a single stroke of policy and a single effort of the will , wipe out all the minor problems of the universe . The origin of life and mind lies at the foundation of all other mysteries in the phenomena of Nature ...
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... cause its physical mo- tion , on the same principal that the invisi- ble steam overcomes the inertia of the piston ... caused to change places in opposition to the law of gravity , without contact with some other substantial body , is to ...
... cause its physical mo- tion , on the same principal that the invisi- ble steam overcomes the inertia of the piston ... caused to change places in opposition to the law of gravity , without contact with some other substantial body , is to ...
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... cause . But as nothing visi- they are intangible to chemical analysis , ble or tangible touches it , by which to and elude the most careful scientific tests cause such motion , there must be some in- to prove their existence , and ...
... cause . But as nothing visi- they are intangible to chemical analysis , ble or tangible touches it , by which to and elude the most careful scientific tests cause such motion , there must be some in- to prove their existence , and ...
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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...
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.
513 페이지 - I may be permitted to say, as some excuse, that I had two distinct objects in view : firstly, to show that species had not been separately created ; and, secondly, that natural selection had been the chief agent of change, though largely aided by the inherited effects of habit, and slightly by the direct action of the surrounding conditions.
447 페이지 - Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being...
102 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.
472 페이지 - Hence there can be no doubt that the quagga affected the character of the offspring subsequently begot by the black Arabian horse.