Essays and Criticisms, Volumen2Little, 1892 |
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... observe : ' It is very doubtful whether the primary use of the light is to guide the male to the female ' ( vol . i . p . 345 ) . Again , as to certain British field- bugs , he says : ' If in any species the males had differed from the ...
... observe : ' It is very doubtful whether the primary use of the light is to guide the male to the female ' ( vol . i . p . 345 ) . Again , as to certain British field- bugs , he says : ' If in any species the males had differed from the ...
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... observed , must rather be ranked as a kind of ' natural selection . ' Even with regard to this , however , we may well hesitate , when Mr. Darwin tells us , as he does , that seeing the habitual con- tests of the males , ' it is ...
... observed , must rather be ranked as a kind of ' natural selection . ' Even with regard to this , however , we may well hesitate , when Mr. Darwin tells us , as he does , that seeing the habitual con- tests of the males , ' it is ...
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... observed that , as is often the case , Mr. Darwin assumes the very point in dispute , unless he means by ' power of choice ' mere freedom of physical power . If he means an internal , mental faculty of choice , then the observer could ...
... observed that , as is often the case , Mr. Darwin assumes the very point in dispute , unless he means by ' power of choice ' mere freedom of physical power . If he means an internal , mental faculty of choice , then the observer could ...
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... observed for a long time the Cebus Azar in its native land , found it liable to catarrh , with the usual symptons , and which when often recurrent , led to consumption . These monkeys suffered also from apoplexy , inflammation of the ...
... observed for a long time the Cebus Azar in its native land , found it liable to catarrh , with the usual symptons , and which when often recurrent , led to consumption . These monkeys suffered also from apoplexy , inflammation of the ...
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... observations having only brought out vividly what no one denied , viz . , that during this life a certain integrity of bodily structure is requisite for the due exercise of the mental powers . Thus Mr. Darwin's remarks are merely an ...
... observations having only brought out vividly what no one denied , viz . , that during this life a certain integrity of bodily structure is requisite for the due exercise of the mental powers . Thus Mr. Darwin's remarks are merely an ...
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Página 54 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Página 4 - IF IT could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
Página 88 - ... scientific than that of the past ; because it has not only renounced idols of wood and idols of stone, but begins to see the necessity of breaking in pieces the idols built up of books and traditions and fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs, and of cherishing the noblest and most human of man's emotions, by worship "for the most part of the silent sort" at the altar of the Unknown and Unknowable.
Página 26 - It is only our natural prejudice, and that arrogance which made our forefathers declare that they were descended from demigods, which leads us to demur to this conclusion.
Página 102 - Dr. Hooker, in his address to the British Association, spoke thus of the author: "Of Mr. Wallace and his many contributions to philosophical biology it is not easy to speak without enthusiasm; for, putting aside their great merits, he, throughout his writings, with a modesty as rare as I believe it to be unconscious, forgets his own unquestioned claim to the honour of having originated independently of Mr. Darwin, the theories which he so ably defends.
Página 146 - Whence it becomes manifest that our experience of force, is that out of which the idea of Matter is built. Matter as opposing our muscular energies, being immediately present to consciousness in terms of force ; and its occupancy of Space being known by an abstract of experiences originally given in terms of force ; it follows that forces, standing in certain correlations, form the whole content of our idea of Matter.
Página 5 - I probably attributed too much to the action of natural selection or the survival of the fittest. I have altered the fifth edition of the Origin so as to confine my remarks to adaptive changes of structure.
Página 63 - Hence every detail of structure in every living creature (making some little allowance for the direct action of physical conditions) may be viewed either as having been of special use to some ancestral form, or as being now of special use to the descendants of this form — either directly, or indirectly, through the complex laws of growth.
Página 45 - Nevertheless the first foundation or origin of the moral sense lies in the social instincts, including sympathy; and these instincts no doubt were primarily gained, as in the case of the lower animals, through natural selection.
Página 8 - Darwin's theory, that the great break in the organic chain between man and his nearest allies, which cannot be bridged over by any extinct or living species, is answered simply by an appeal ' to a belief in the general principle of evolution