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... expected to divest himself for the nonce of the influence of received and favorite systems ? In fact , the controversy now opened is not likely to be settled in an off - hand way , nor is it desirable that it should be . A spirited ...
... expected to divest himself for the nonce of the influence of received and favorite systems ? In fact , the controversy now opened is not likely to be settled in an off - hand way , nor is it desirable that it should be . A spirited ...
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... expected . Interested as Mr. Dana would be in this volume , he could not be ex- pected to accept its doctrine . Views so idealistic as those upon which his " Thoughts upon Species " are grounded , will not harmonize readily with a ...
... expected . Interested as Mr. Dana would be in this volume , he could not be ex- pected to accept its doctrine . Views so idealistic as those upon which his " Thoughts upon Species " are grounded , will not harmonize readily with a ...
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... expecting many of these phenomena to be resolvable under investigation , views them in their relations to one another , and endeavors to explain them as far as he can ( and perhaps farther ) through natural causes . But does the one ...
... expecting many of these phenomena to be resolvable under investigation , views them in their relations to one another , and endeavors to explain them as far as he can ( and perhaps farther ) through natural causes . But does the one ...
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... expected to be capable of explanation , while ulti- mate laws are not , it is quite possible that variation may be accounted for , while the great primary law of inheritance remains a mysterious fact . The common proposition is , that ...
... expected to be capable of explanation , while ulti- mate laws are not , it is quite possible that variation may be accounted for , while the great primary law of inheritance remains a mysterious fact . The common proposition is , that ...
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... expected more geological evidence of transition than he finds , and that all the most eminent paleontologists maintain the immutability of species . The general fact , however , that the fossil fauna of each period as a whole is nearly ...
... expected more geological evidence of transition than he finds , and that all the most eminent paleontologists maintain the immutability of species . The general fact , however , that the fossil fauna of each period as a whole is nearly ...
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131 페이지 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
2 페이지 - Our Place among Infinities: A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. The Expanse of Heaven : A Series of Essays on the Wonders of the Firmament.
38 페이지 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
38 페이지 - We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food ; we do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life ; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey...
276 페이지 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
396 페이지 - XVIII. The Nature of Light: With a General Account of Physical Optics.
18 페이지 - The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species. At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, in the same manner as species and groups of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for life.
395 페이지 - II. Physics and Politics ; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection " and " Inheritance
104 페이지 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...
104 페이지 - ... been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.