Evolution and Man's Place in NatureMacmillan, 1893 - 350 páginas |
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abiogenesis action activity advance Alfred Russel Wallace analogy animal intelligence appears becomes belongs biology body brain cell Cell Theory characteristics civilisation common comparative complex concerned conclusion consciousness continuity contrast Darwin degeneration depends Descent difference discrimination distinct earth embryonic ence environment evidence exercise explained facts faculties favour fertilised gemmules germ germ-cell germ-plasm higher mammals human intelligence hypothesis ideas illustrations impossible included individual inductions inheritance inquiry instinct interpretation J. S. Mill knowledge larvæ laws of heredity man's place manifest ment mental powers mind monkey moral movement muscular natural history natural selection nerve nerve-cells nucleus observation organic Origin of Species ovum pangenesis parent perplexity phases phenomena physical physiological place in Nature present problem protoplasm race rational power recognised reference relations reproduction scientific sense sensibility sensory experience sensory impression spermatozoon stage structure and function supplies testimony things thought tion trace variations vocalisation Weismann
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Página 61 - The latest Gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it. "Know thyself;" long enough has that poor "self" of thine tormented thee; thou wilt never get to "know/' it, I believe. Think it not thy business, this of knowing thyself; thou art an unknowable individual; know what thou canst work at and work at it like a Hercules.
Página 219 - It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
Página 325 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 314 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 117 - If no organic being excepting man had possessed any mental power, or if his powers had been of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals, then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed.
Página 24 - Hence it appears to be a matter of no great moment what animal, or what plant, I lay under contribution for protoplasm, and the fact speaks volumes for the general identity of that substance in all living beings. I share this catholicity of assimilation with other animals, all of which, so far as we know, could thrive equally well on the protoplasm of any of their fellows, or of any plant; but here the assimilative powers of the animal world cease.
Página 320 - While that great body was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour from opposition, and finally erected the triumphant banner of the Cross on the ruins of the Capitol.
Página 63 - In physiological language this means, that all the multifarious and complicated activities of man are comprehensible under three categories. Either they are immediately directed towards the maintenance and development of the body, or they effect transitory changes in the relative positions of parts of the body, or they tend toward the continuance of the species.
Página xiv - 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 321 - God necessarily believes that whatever God has thought fit to reveal on the subject of morals must fulfil the requirements of utility in a supreme degree. But others besides utilitarians have been of opinion that the Christian revelation was intended, and is fitted, to inform the hearts and minds of mankind with a spirit which should enable them to find for themselves what is right, and incline them to do it when found, rather than to tell them, except in a very general way, what it is; and that...