Evolution, Old and New: Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as Compared with that of Mr. Charles DarwinHardwicke and Bogue, 1879 - 384 páginas |
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... desire to do it to improve his theoretic knowledge ; ... but for the purpose of ascertaining the existence of counsel and design in the formation of the machine , he wants no such intromission or privity . The effect upon the material ...
... desire to do it to improve his theoretic knowledge ; ... but for the purpose of ascertaining the existence of counsel and design in the formation of the machine , he wants no such intromission or privity . The effect upon the material ...
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... this or that , but in the easing of the desire to know or understand more completely - in the peace of mind which passeth 34 EVOLUTION , OLd and new . CHAPTER IV FAILURE OF THE FIRST EVOLUTIONISTS TO SEE THEIR POSITION AS TELEOLOGICAL.
... this or that , but in the easing of the desire to know or understand more completely - in the peace of mind which passeth 34 EVOLUTION , OLd and new . CHAPTER IV FAILURE OF THE FIRST EVOLUTIONISTS TO SEE THEIR POSITION AS TELEOLOGICAL.
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... desire and inventive faculty . The greater or less complexity of the organs goes for very little . It is only a question of the amount of intelligence and voluntary self - adaptation which we must admit , and this must be settled rather ...
... desire and inventive faculty . The greater or less complexity of the organs goes for very little . It is only a question of the amount of intelligence and voluntary self - adaptation which we must admit , and this must be settled rather ...
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... desires - given such a jelly - speck with a power of assimilating other matter , and thus , of re- producing itself , given also that it should be possessed of a memory , and we can show how the whole animal world can have descended it ...
... desires - given such a jelly - speck with a power of assimilating other matter , and thus , of re- producing itself , given also that it should be possessed of a memory , and we can show how the whole animal world can have descended it ...
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... desire and design , either within the creature or without it , but of blind chance , working no whither , and due but to the accumulation of innumerable lucky accidents . “ There are men , " writes Professor Tyndall in the ' Nineteenth ...
... desire and design , either within the creature or without it , but of blind chance , working no whither , and due but to the accumulation of innumerable lucky accidents . “ There are men , " writes Professor Tyndall in the ' Nineteenth ...
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Evolution, Old and New: Or the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and ... Butler Vista completa - 1879 |
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action admit animals animals and plants appear become beetles birds body brain breeds Buffon called cause changes chapter Charles Darwin climate common consequence continues creature descent with modification disuse doctrine domestication effect Erasmus Darwin evolution existence eyes fact feel fittest G. H. Lewes Geoffroy St gradually habits hence Hilaire Hist horse Ibid idea individual insects insisted instinct Isidore Geoffroy kind Lamarck less living filament manner matter means of modification mind mutability of species natural selection Natural Theology naturalists nerves observe offspring opinion organ Origin of Species parents passage perception perfect Phil Philosophie Zoologique present produced Professor Haeckel purpose quadrupeds race reader reason resemblance rudimentary sensation sense structure suppose survival teleology theory of descent things tion variations varieties vary vegetable Vestiges of Creation volume wild wings words writes Zool Zoonomia
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Página 230 - ... would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity-, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!
Página 248 - The work, from its powerful and brilliant style, though displaying in the earlier editions little accurate knowledge and a great want of scientific caution, immediately had a very wide circulation. In my opinion it has done excellent service in this country in calling attention to the subject, in removing prejudice, and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of analogous views.
Página 364 - In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, Natural Selection is a false term; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it in preference combines.
Página 12 - ... the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew the watch might have always been there.
Página 375 - ... the wingless condition of so many Madeira beetles is mainly due to the action of natural selection, combined probably with disuse. For during many successive generations each individual beetle which flew least, either from its wings having been ever so little less perfectly developed or from indolent habit, will have had the best chance of surviving from not being blown out to sea...
Página iv - THE FAIR HAVEN. A Work in Defence of the Miraculous Element in our Lord's Ministry. Cr. 8vo. , 7*. 6d. LIFE AND HABIT. An Essay after a Completer View of Evolution. Cr. 8vo., 7s. 6d EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW.
Página 321 - ... of climate, whose figure is best accommodated to health, strength, defence, and support; whose capacities and instincts can best regulate the physical energies to self-advantage according to circumstances — in such immense waste of primary and youthful life, those only come forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by which Nature tests their adaptation to her standard of perfection and fitness to continue their kind by reproduction.
Página 347 - Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being...
Página 13 - ... different size from what they are, or placed after any other manner, or in any other order, than that in which they are placed, either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine, or none which would have answered the use that is now served by it. To reckon up a few of the plainest of these parts, and of their offices, all tending to one result : — We see a cylindrical box containing a coiled elastic spring, which, by its endeavour to relax itself, turns round the box.