The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution Evolved," with a Review of the Six Great Modern Scientists, Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, Haeckel, Helmholtz, and MayerHall, 1877 - 512 páginas |
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... Heat , Gravitation , Electricity , Magnetism , Odor , Air , & c . , they have one intrinsic and paramount object constantly in view , and that is , to insensibly but surely prepare the way for an intelligent con- viction in the mind of ...
... Heat , Gravitation , Electricity , Magnetism , Odor , Air , & c . , they have one intrinsic and paramount object constantly in view , and that is , to insensibly but surely prepare the way for an intelligent con- viction in the mind of ...
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... Heat as a Mode of Motion . In this seemingly preposterous and hazardous attempt I was necessarily compelled to undertake the additional task of reviewing no less an authority than Professor Tyndall ( the ablest and most popular exponent ...
... Heat as a Mode of Motion . In this seemingly preposterous and hazardous attempt I was necessarily compelled to undertake the additional task of reviewing no less an authority than Professor Tyndall ( the ablest and most popular exponent ...
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... heat , sound , instinct , life , Again I take pleasure in quoting with my full approval the emphatic testimony of Joseph Cook , that the material universe , as well as finite mind , life and instinct , has been evolved , or , as I have ...
... heat , sound , instinct , life , Again I take pleasure in quoting with my full approval the emphatic testimony of Joseph Cook , that the material universe , as well as finite mind , life and instinct , has been evolved , or , as I have ...
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... heat . So completely are we in- volved in mysteries and surrounded by problems , in whatever direction we turn , and whatever phase of natural phenomena we contemplate , that the mind intuitively seeks for solution , -for some solid ...
... heat . So completely are we in- volved in mysteries and surrounded by problems , in whatever direction we turn , and whatever phase of natural phenomena we contemplate , that the mind intuitively seeks for solution , -for some solid ...
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... heat , though this heat generates the moving energy which drives the living locomotive , yet tuis het , this energy , this mental power , this vital motor - force are all noth- ing but the molecular play of the physical cells of ...
... heat , though this heat generates the moving energy which drives the living locomotive , yet tuis het , this energy , this mental power , this vital motor - force are all noth- ing but the molecular play of the physical cells of ...
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Página 450 - If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?
Página 450 - Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life.
Página 394 - What limit can be put to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each creature, — favouring the good and rejecting the bad? I can see no limit to this power, in slowly and beautifully adapting each form to the most complex relations of life.
Página 443 - And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
Página 258 - ... would have broken the glass ; had he been close to a drum-head he would have shaken the drum. We could thus transmit a push through a row of a hundred boys, each particular boy, however, only swaying to and fro. Thus, also, we send sound through the air and shake the drum of a distant ear, while each particular particle of the air concerned in the transmission of the pulse makes only a small oscillation.
Página 445 - Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being...
Página 29 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into...
Página 508 - If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection.
Página 394 - Let this process go on for millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man ? Modes of Transition.
Página 254 - The same air is competent to accept and transmit the vibrations of a thousand instruments at the same time. When we try to visualise the motion of that air — to present to the eye of the mind the battling of the pulses direct and reverberated — the imagination retires baffled from the attempt.