The Method of Darwin: A Study in Scientific MethodA. C. McClurg, 1896 - 232 páginas |
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Página 169
... Malthus the cause was presented to him , and he brought it and its effects into relation with each other by interpreting the latter as results of the action of the former . the case of the sensitiveness to touch in plants , 1 Journal ...
... Malthus the cause was presented to him , and he brought it and its effects into relation with each other by interpreting the latter as results of the action of the former . the case of the sensitiveness to touch in plants , 1 Journal ...
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... Malthus in this work was to investigate the causes that had hitherto impeded the progress of mankind toward hap- piness . After establishing the principle that population has a tendency to increase in geo- metrical ratio , while the ...
... Malthus in this work was to investigate the causes that had hitherto impeded the progress of mankind toward hap- piness . After establishing the principle that population has a tendency to increase in geo- metrical ratio , while the ...
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... great numbers of them are deformed , dwarfish , mutilated , blind , and deaf . " 1 1 Principle of Population , Chap . IV . pp . 20 , 21 . - It seems almost astounding that Malthus did not recognize 220 THE METHOD OF DARWIN .
... great numbers of them are deformed , dwarfish , mutilated , blind , and deaf . " 1 1 Principle of Population , Chap . IV . pp . 20 , 21 . - It seems almost astounding that Malthus did not recognize 220 THE METHOD OF DARWIN .
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... Malthus had worked out the struggle for existence and recognized its selective action , at least within a limited range ; and as a natural theologian he must have been acquainted with numerous adaptations . But he did not connect them ...
... Malthus had worked out the struggle for existence and recognized its selective action , at least within a limited range ; and as a natural theologian he must have been acquainted with numerous adaptations . But he did not connect them ...
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... Malthus presented , and gathered a new sig- nificance from it . " Here , then , I had at last got a theory by which to work , " he said . The groping was at an end . His future work was outlined . The confession in that sentence can be ...
... Malthus presented , and gathered a new sig- nificance from it . " Here , then , I had at last got a theory by which to work , " he said . The groping was at an end . His future work was outlined . The confession in that sentence can be ...
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Página 37 - I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
Página 47 - I think that I am superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully.
Página 89 - This wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living, will, I do not doubt, hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on our earth and their disappearance from it than any other class of facts.
Página 216 - I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts on a wholesale scale...
Página 157 - If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection.
Página 217 - I soon perceived that selection was the keystone of man's success in making useful races of animals and plants. But how selection could be applied to organisms living in a state of nature remained for some time a mystery to nie. "In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement 'Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits...
Página 124 - Looking back, I think it was more difficult to see what the problems were than to solve them, so far as I have succeeded in doing, and this seems to me rather curious.
Página 28 - Everything about which I thought or read was made to bear directly on what I had seen or was likely to see ; and this habit of mind was continued during the five years of the voyage. I feel sure that it was this training which has enabled me to do whatever I have done in science.
Página 15 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.