Evolution: Popular Lectures and Discussions Before the Brooklyn Ethical AssociationJ. H. West, 1889 - 400 páginas |
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... whole process of ev- olution throughout nature is one of action and resistance . This is a law of social as well as physical existence . But it does seem a little remarkable that , where antagonism oc- curs , the interest of men is ...
... whole process of ev- olution throughout nature is one of action and resistance . This is a law of social as well as physical existence . But it does seem a little remarkable that , where antagonism oc- curs , the interest of men is ...
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... whole philosophy of evolution , Darwin's work was special and limited . That it was a great work I am certainly not disposed to deny , but I think we ought to understand exactly what it was . It cannot better be ex- pressed than in an ...
... whole philosophy of evolution , Darwin's work was special and limited . That it was a great work I am certainly not disposed to deny , but I think we ought to understand exactly what it was . It cannot better be ex- pressed than in an ...
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... whole machinery of life . . . . It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world every variation , even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad , preserving and adding up all that is good ...
... whole machinery of life . . . . It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world every variation , even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad , preserving and adding up all that is good ...
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... whole outline of the body would become more fish - like , with bones and muscles better adapted for aquatic locomotion . We find the seals in this condition . The hind legs are much shortened , and directed backwards , so that they do ...
... whole outline of the body would become more fish - like , with bones and muscles better adapted for aquatic locomotion . We find the seals in this condition . The hind legs are much shortened , and directed backwards , so that they do ...
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... whole Simian stock , including Man , was identical with , or even close- ly resembled , any existing ape or monkey . The five great vertebrate classes , - mammals , birds , reptiles , amphibians , and fishes , are all , says Darwin ...
... whole Simian stock , including Man , was identical with , or even close- ly resembled , any existing ape or monkey . The five great vertebrate classes , - mammals , birds , reptiles , amphibians , and fishes , are all , says Darwin ...
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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...