Scientific Sophisms: A Review of Current Theories Concerning Atoms, Apes and MenHodder and Stoughton, 1881 - 310페이지 |
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Abraham of scientific absolutely admit agnostic Evolution Agnosticism ammonia analogy assertion Atheism atoms beginning Belfast Address believe carbonic acid Carl Semper cell CHAPTER Charles Darwin chasm chemical chemistry complex compounds conception consciousness cosmic vapour creation Critiques and Addresses Darwin difference distinct doctrine of Evolution doubt Elam Ernst Haeckel eternal evidence existence fact figment forces forms Fortnightly Review Fragments of Science going complex Haeckel Herbert Spencer human Huxley's hydrogen Ibid identical imagination inorganic intellectual less life-matter living matter living protoplasm Lucretius Materialism merely mind modification molecular molecules Monera Natural Selection nucleated vesicle organic Origin of Species oxygen phenomena physical basis plants plasm possessed present primordial produced Prof Professor Huxley Professor Tyndall properties proto protoplasm puerile hypothesis question reason scientific levity SOPHISMS Spencer spontaneous structure substance suppose tells theory tion tissues Transmutation of Species true Tyndall's verification vitality words xxii
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150 페이지 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
15 페이지 - There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms, most beautiful and most wonderful, have been and are being evolved.
46 페이지 - He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
15 페이지 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
16 페이지 - I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
20 페이지 - A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has "gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that He required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of His laws.
30 페이지 - But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
201 페이지 - None of the processes of Nature, since the time when Nature began, have produced the slightest difference in the properties of any molecule.
70 페이지 - At all events, no line has ever been drawn between the conscious and the unconscious ; for the vegetable shades into the animal by such fine gradations, that it is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins.
91 페이지 - By an intellectual necessity I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that Matter which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of all terrestrial Life.