"Monera", the Principles of Evolution and Immortality of Atomic LifeP.G. Lewis, 1911 - 198 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
according to Nature Affinity ancestors animal annexation Atomic benefit body chemical combinations complete composed constitutes created creation Darwin death dependent cell destroy Earth Elements ERNST HEINRICH HAECKEL ETERNAL Ethereal Matter evolution FACTS Final Satisfaction governing power harmony hermaphrodite homogeneous mass human IDEAL inner cells inorganic INSEPARABLE invisible Judgments Laws of Nature LEWIS PRICE living cells living stockholders male and female man's corporation man's laws manifested mankind material assets Material Matter Mechanical Laws ment monera MONEY natural living person Naturalist nature's corporation Nature's Laws Nature's Standards nucleus offspring operations organic matter ORGANIC MONERON MATTER Organic-Life organization and existence Origin of Species ovum PAUL G perfect plant poration possessed present primitive properties reasoning powers reference REGENERATION religious reproduction result schists scientific scientists simple division simplest form species Spermatozoa Spirit Heaven Spirit-Life SPONTANEOUS stockholders thereof struggle for existence Subtract Remainder theory tion Transition or Dissolution UNIVERSE wherein words
Pasajes populares
Página 170 - Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever, king of kings and lord of lords.
Página 178 - When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
Página 171 - ... man is descended from some less highly organised form. The grounds upon which this conclusion rests will never be shaken, for the close similarity between man and the lower animals in embryonic development, as well as in innumerable points of structure and constitution, both of high and of the most trifling importance,-the rudiments which he retains, and the abnormal reversions to which he is occasionally liable, are facts which cannot be disputed.
Página 165 - A child absorbs environment. It is the most susceptible thing in the world to influence, and if that force be applied rightly and constantly when the child is in its most receptive condition, the effect will be pronounced, immediate, and permanent.
Página 169 - The materialistic assumption that the life of the soul ends with the life of the body is perhaps the most colossal instance of baseless assumption that is known to the history of philosophy. No evidence for it can be alleged beyond the familiar fact that during the present life we know Soul only in its association with Body, and therefore cannot discover disembodied soul without dying ourselves. This fact must always prevent us from obtaining direct evidence for the belief in the soul's survival....
Página 169 - I believe it has been fully shown that so far from degrading Humanity, or putting it on a level with the animal world in general, the doctrine of evolution shows us distinctly for the first time how the creation and the perfecting of Man is the goal toward which Nature's work has been tending from the first.
Página 168 - Species; and there is no more reason for supposing that this conclusion will ever be gainsaid than for supposing that the Copernican astronomy will sometime be overthrown.
Página 169 - Darwinian theory shows us distinctly for the first time how the creation and the perfecting of Man is the goal toward which Nature's work has all the while been tending. It enlarges tenfold the significance of human life, places it upon even a loftier eminence than poets or prophets have imagined, and makes it seem more than ever the chief object of that creative activity which is manifested in the physical universe.
Página 169 - ... emerging from his brute inheritance, and the development in its stead of religious feelings and altruistic conduct born of spiritual, moral, and intellectual ideals, was a truth of such sublime grandeur and significance, as to be without a parallel in the whole universe of things. Yet, he admitted that it is not likely that we shall ever succeed in making the immortality of the soul a matter of scientific demonstration, for we lack the requisite data: it must ever remain an affair of religion,...
Página 171 - The grounds upon which this conclusion rests will never be shaken, for the close similarity between man and the lower animals in embryonic development, as well as in innumerable points of structure and constitution, both of high and of the most trifling importance — the rudiments which he retains, and the abnormal reversions to which he is occasionally liable — are facts which cannot be disputed.