Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to DarwinismD. Appleton, 1889 - 396 páginas |
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... reviewer has not the presumption to undertake such a task . Having no prepossession in favor of naturalistic theo- ries , but struck with the eminent ability of Mr. Dar- win's work , and charmed with its fairness , our hum- bler duty ...
... reviewer has not the presumption to undertake such a task . Having no prepossession in favor of naturalistic theo- ries , but struck with the eminent ability of Mr. Dar- win's work , and charmed with its fairness , our hum- bler duty ...
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... of these opposed reviews especially invite examination . We propose , accordingly , to conclude our task with an article upon " Darwin and his Reviewers . " III . THE origin of species , like all origination 128 DARWINIANA .
... of these opposed reviews especially invite examination . We propose , accordingly , to conclude our task with an article upon " Darwin and his Reviewers . " III . THE origin of species , like all origination 128 DARWINIANA .
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... world . But the small minority has al- ready prevailed : the emission theory has gone out ; the undulatory or wave theory , after some fluctuation , has reached high tide , and is now the pervading DARWIN AND HIS REVIEWERS . 131.
... world . But the small minority has al- ready prevailed : the emission theory has gone out ; the undulatory or wave theory , after some fluctuation , has reached high tide , and is now the pervading DARWIN AND HIS REVIEWERS . 131.
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... right to set forth the doctrine as fairly and as favorably as we could . There are plenty to decry it , and the whole theory is widely exposed to attack . For the arguments on the other side DARWIN AND HIS REVIEWERS . 133.
... right to set forth the doctrine as fairly and as favorably as we could . There are plenty to decry it , and the whole theory is widely exposed to attack . For the arguments on the other side DARWIN AND HIS REVIEWERS . 133.
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... most impressed with a sense of their great inequality . Some strike us as excellent and perhaps unanswerable ; some , as incongruous with other views of the same writers ; others , when DARWIN AND HIS REVIEWERS . 135.
... most impressed with a sense of their great inequality . Some strike us as excellent and perhaps unanswerable ; some , as incongruous with other views of the same writers ; others , when DARWIN AND HIS REVIEWERS . 135.
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Página 129 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Página 396 - ON SOUND : A Course of Eight Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Página 274 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Página 16 - ... of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups. Of the many twigs which flourished when the tree was a mere bush, only two or three, now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear the other branches; so with the species which lived during long-past geological periods, very few have left living and modified descendants.
Página 16 - The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species. At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, in the same manner as species and groups of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for life.
Página 102 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...
Página 102 - ... been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.