Evolution: Popular Lectures and Discussions Before the Brooklyn Ethical AssociationJ. H. West, 1889 - 400 páginas |
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... less - distin- guished people from abroad . " I think my correspondent must have been of Scotch ancestry : but , whatever may have been his pedigree , my feelings may be imagined when I afterwards saw , in my friend's paper , a ...
... less - distin- guished people from abroad . " I think my correspondent must have been of Scotch ancestry : but , whatever may have been his pedigree , my feelings may be imagined when I afterwards saw , in my friend's paper , a ...
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... less science with its nescience ; science has , from the first , kept hold of more or less nes- cience as though it were a part of science . Each has been obliged gradually to relinquish that territory which it wrong- fully claimed ...
... less science with its nescience ; science has , from the first , kept hold of more or less nes- cience as though it were a part of science . Each has been obliged gradually to relinquish that territory which it wrong- fully claimed ...
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... less original , not less masterly were his works upon Volcanic Islands and the Geology of South America . The latter sought , and not in vain , to prove the slow and interrupted elevation of the South American continent within a recent ...
... less original , not less masterly were his works upon Volcanic Islands and the Geology of South America . The latter sought , and not in vain , to prove the slow and interrupted elevation of the South American continent within a recent ...
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... less comprehensive and conclusive character of his own in- vestigations . " The Origin of Species " was not intended as an exhaust- ive statement of the argument for natural selection , but only as an outline of this argument . But it ...
... less comprehensive and conclusive character of his own in- vestigations . " The Origin of Species " was not intended as an exhaust- ive statement of the argument for natural selection , but only as an outline of this argument . But it ...
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... less and less . Hence the extinction of certain races . But natural selection also leads to divergence of character ; for the more the living beings that can be supported on the same area , the more they diverge in structure , habits ...
... less and less . Hence the extinction of certain races . But natural selection also leads to divergence of character ; for the more the living beings that can be supported on the same area , the more they diverge in structure , habits ...
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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...