Evolution: Popular Lectures and Discussions Before the Brooklyn Ethical AssociationJ. H. West, 1889 - 400 páginas |
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... called history , while he who has moulded the opinions and conduct of men occupies an inferior po- sition . Even in the life of a scholar like Mr. Spencer , it is his collisions with other people , prominent repre- sentatives of other ...
... called history , while he who has moulded the opinions and conduct of men occupies an inferior po- sition . Even in the life of a scholar like Mr. Spencer , it is his collisions with other people , prominent repre- sentatives of other ...
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... called to pay their respects , and a little demonstration in his honor was threatened . Mr. Spencer however , tired and ill , had gone to his room , leaving orders that he could see no one and must not be disturbed . The people would ...
... called to pay their respects , and a little demonstration in his honor was threatened . Mr. Spencer however , tired and ill , had gone to his room , leaving orders that he could see no one and must not be disturbed . The people would ...
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... called the Swan of Lichfield . She was extremely sentimental , according to the fashion of the time . She covered many reams of paper with her verses of the frosted - cake variety , and wrote besides a good deal of crit- icism and ...
... called the Swan of Lichfield . She was extremely sentimental , according to the fashion of the time . She covered many reams of paper with her verses of the frosted - cake variety , and wrote besides a good deal of crit- icism and ...
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... called a fish because it had the general form and habits of a fish . Even the great Buffon questioned whether a croc- odile should not be classified as an insect because the hard- ness of its casing corresponds to the hardness of a ...
... called a fish because it had the general form and habits of a fish . Even the great Buffon questioned whether a croc- odile should not be classified as an insect because the hard- ness of its casing corresponds to the hardness of a ...
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... called the descent of man is surely an ascent . And what an ascent from the invertebrate amphioxus to the Darwin who can read the riddle of this mighty evolution ! And over against this ascent the popular religion sets the Fall of Man a ...
... called the descent of man is surely an ascent . And what an ascent from the invertebrate amphioxus to the Darwin who can read the riddle of this mighty evolution ! And over against this ascent the popular religion sets the Fall of Man a ...
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action ages Agnosticism algæ animal appear artificial selection beautiful become believe brain cells character CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN Christian conception condition consciousness continuity Cosmic Philosophy creation Darwin Deity descent differentiation doctrine of Evolution earth environment ethical evidence evolution philosophy evolutionary evolutionists experience fact fittest forces forms geological geological period growth Herbert Spencer higher idea ideal increase individual Infinite intellectual intelligence knowledge lecturer living lower mammals material matter ment mental metaphysical method monotheism moral motion natural selection nebula observed organic evolution Origin of Species Pantheism perfect phenomena physical plants present primitive principle produce Professor progress proof protoplasm Psychology quadruped race relations religion religious result rocks scientific seems sense social societary society special creation Spencer structure teleology tendency theism theistic theology theory things thought tion to-day true truth universe Unknowable vegetable
Pasajes populares
Página 253 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Página 18 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 34 - She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Página 43 - For humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into history's golden urn.
Página viii - A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
Página 133 - All the forms are fugitive, But the substances survive. Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.
Página 128 - I took in February three tablespoonfuls of mud from three different points, beneath water, on the edge of a little pond : this mud when dried weighed only 6^ ounces; I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew ; the plants were of many kinds, and were altogether 537 in number; and yet the viscid mud was all contained in a breakfast cup!
Página 43 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Página 134 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts...