The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Evolution, old and newJ. Cape, 1924 |
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... suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer that for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the ...
... suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer that for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the ...
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... suppose the eye formed , would the perception follow ? The same of the other senses . And this ob- jection holds its force , ascribe what you will to the hand of time , to the power of habit , to changes too slow to be observed by man ...
... suppose the eye formed , would the perception follow ? The same of the other senses . And this ob- jection holds its force , ascribe what you will to the hand of time , to the power of habit , to changes too slow to be observed by man ...
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... suppose there were a controversy as to how this micro- scope had originated , and that one party maintained the man had made it little by little because he wanted it , while the other declared this to be absurd and impos- sible ; I ask ...
... suppose there were a controversy as to how this micro- scope had originated , and that one party maintained the man had made it little by little because he wanted it , while the other declared this to be absurd and impos- sible ; I ask ...
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... suppose a bird's nest to be built with . The greater number of the parts any such engine , are made by the gross as it were like screws and nuts , which are turned out by machinery and in respect of which the labour of design is now no ...
... suppose a bird's nest to be built with . The greater number of the parts any such engine , are made by the gross as it were like screws and nuts , which are turned out by machinery and in respect of which the labour of design is now no ...
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... suppose that Buffon really saw no more con- nection than this ? The writer whom we shall presently find 3 declining to admit any essential difference between the skeletons of man and of the horse , can here see no resemblance between ...
... suppose that Buffon really saw no more con- nection than this ? The writer whom we shall presently find 3 declining to admit any essential difference between the skeletons of man and of the horse , can here see no resemblance between ...
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¹ Hist ¹ Phil action admit animals animals and plants appear become believe birds body brain breeds Buffon changes chapter Charles Darwin circumstances climate common conditions of existence continues creature declares descent with modification disuse doctrine domestication effect ence Erasmus Darwin evolution eyes fact feel fittest G. H. Lewes Geoffroy St greater habits Hift Hilaire horse Ibid idea individual insects instinct Isidore Geoffroy kind Lamarck less living filament maintains manner matter means of modification memory ment mind mutability of species natural selection Natural Theology nerves observe offspring opinion Origin of Species Pantheism parents passage Patrick Matthew perception Philosophie Zoologique present principle produced Professor Haeckel purpose quadrupeds race reader resemblance sensation sense structure suppose survival teleology things tion varieties vary vegetable Vestiges of Creation volume wings words writes Zool Zoonomia
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Página 10 - For this reason, and for no other, viz, that, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, eg that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day...
Página 320 - It has been said that I speak of Natural Selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets ? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity.
Página 204 - ... the world itself might have been generated, rather than created; that is, it might have been gradually produced from very small beginnings, increasing by the activity of its inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat.
Página 10 - I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone ? why is it not as admissible in the second case, as in the first ? For this reason, and for no other, viz.
Página 327 - ... 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 67 - abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three, " but the greatest of these is charity.
Página 10 - I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show 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 280 - The self-regulating adaptive disposition of organised life, may, in part, be traced to the extreme fecundity of Nature, who, as before stated, has, in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused by senile decay. As the field of existence is limited and pre-occupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better suited to circumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these...
Página 304 - Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being...
Página 198 - A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose...