Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Volumen2Victoria Institute., 1867 |
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... believe ? Why , that this same identical thick crust of earth , which occupies now a certain space , is being perpetually crushed up together and put in a smaller space . For example , it requires us to believe that the land which stood ...
... believe ? Why , that this same identical thick crust of earth , which occupies now a certain space , is being perpetually crushed up together and put in a smaller space . For example , it requires us to believe that the land which stood ...
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... can the land , in like manner , get back again ? Mr. Hopkins's theory plainly requires us to believe that it does . He says nothing of any accumulation of land at the North Pole , or of any unfailing store of land at the South Pole 16.
... can the land , in like manner , get back again ? Mr. Hopkins's theory plainly requires us to believe that it does . He says nothing of any accumulation of land at the North Pole , or of any unfailing store of land at the South Pole 16.
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... believe , did not extend to the same extent as at present , its southern part being probably dry land , on which stood the cities of Sodom , Gomorrha , & c . Then , second , the land was not then impregnated with salt , but was fruitful ...
... believe , did not extend to the same extent as at present , its southern part being probably dry land , on which stood the cities of Sodom , Gomorrha , & c . Then , second , the land was not then impregnated with salt , but was fruitful ...
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... believe that all these three fauna were not fauna of distinct creations , but might have been co - existent on the earth at the same time . To take an example from known facts , we find that owing to the course of the Gulf Stream upon ...
... believe that all these three fauna were not fauna of distinct creations , but might have been co - existent on the earth at the same time . To take an example from known facts , we find that owing to the course of the Gulf Stream upon ...
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... believe in a universal deluge ; and a universal deluge could not have taken place without a very consider- able change of the whole earth's surface , and without leaving very consider- able marks on the surface . And the reason , I ...
... believe in a universal deluge ; and a universal deluge could not have taken place without a very consider- able change of the whole earth's surface , and without leaving very consider- able marks on the surface . And the reason , I ...
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Página 69 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.18 Darwin always knew that his views would be controversial. A few days before The Origin of Species appeared, Darwin wrote, in a letter to Wallace, 'God knows what...
Página 293 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck : And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Página 119 - ... pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
Página 207 - Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Página 108 - It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity.
Página 84 - If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument, we ought in imagination to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with spaces filled with fluid, and with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing slowly in density, so as to separate into layers of different densities and thicknesses, placed at different distances from each other, and with the surfaces of each layer slowly changing in form. Further, we must suppose that there is...
Página 139 - Subduct from any phenomenon such part as is known by previous inductions to be the effect of certain antecedents, and the residue of the phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents.
Página 174 - The question of questions for mankind — the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other — is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things.
Página 108 - 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; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Página 125 - If we now suppose this feeling of unity to be taught as a religion, and the whole force of education, of institutions, and of opinion, directed, as it once was in the case of religion, to make every person grow up from infancy surrounded on all sides...