| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them ! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a misnomer ; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements... | |
| Religion and science - 1867 - 510 pages
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them ! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a misnomer ; but whoever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements... | |
| John R. Leifchild - Natural theology - 1872 - 578 pages
...be disposed to disown it as an active power or Deity, is uncertain. Truly has the author confessed " in the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term." One thing, however, is apparent, and that is that Mr. Darwin now materially limits the influence of... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term ; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ? —... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 396 pages
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them ! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term ; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ? —... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1896 - 406 pages
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them ! In the literal sense 'of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term ; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ? —and... | |
| Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 408 pages
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them ! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term ; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ? —... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 492 pages
...it has even been urged that as plants have no volition, Natural Selection is not applicable to them! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, Natural Selection is a false term; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ? —... | |
| Walter Warren Seton - Apologetics - 1903 - 168 pages
...Others have objected that as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them ! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term ; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ? .... | |
| Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 482 pages
...has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them! In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ?—and... | |
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