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... considered satisfactory or not . It would certainly be irrational to refuse to believe that the eye was made for the purpose of vision , because we cannot tell why a man has mam- mæ . A man might as well refuse to admit that there is ...
... considered satisfactory or not . It would certainly be irrational to refuse to believe that the eye was made for the purpose of vision , because we cannot tell why a man has mam- mæ . A man might as well refuse to admit that there is ...
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... considered as sufficient for the development of the varied forms of life which certainly existed toward the close of the Cam- brian period . " ( p . 379 ) . Years in this con- nection have no meaning . We might as well try to give the ...
... considered as sufficient for the development of the varied forms of life which certainly existed toward the close of the Cam- brian period . " ( p . 379 ) . Years in this con- nection have no meaning . We might as well try to give the ...
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... considered irreligious . Her- bert Spencer says , that his doctrine of an in- scrutable , unintelligent , unknown force , as the cause of all things , is a much more religious doctrine than that of a personal , intelligent , and ...
... considered irreligious . Her- bert Spencer says , that his doctrine of an in- scrutable , unintelligent , unknown force , as the cause of all things , is a much more religious doctrine than that of a personal , intelligent , and ...
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... considered separately . It is conceded that a man may be an evolu- tionist and yet not be an atheist and may admit of design in nature . But we cannot see how the theory of evolution can be reconciled with the declarations of the ...
... considered separately . It is conceded that a man may be an evolu- tionist and yet not be an atheist and may admit of design in nature . But we cannot see how the theory of evolution can be reconciled with the declarations of the ...
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... considered that there are innumerable cases of contrivance , or evidence of design in nature , to which the principle of natural selection , or the purposeless changes effected by unconscious force , cannot apply ; as for example , the ...
... considered that there are innumerable cases of contrivance , or evidence of design in nature , to which the principle of natural selection , or the purposeless changes effected by unconscious force , cannot apply ; as for example , the ...
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Page 31 - I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection.
Page 3 - God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
Page 46 - If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith ? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
Page 37 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Page 54 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Page 136 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Page 31 - Owing to this struggle, variations, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if they be in any degree profitable to the individuals of a species, in their infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to their physical conditions of life, will tend to the preservation of such individuals, and will generally be inherited by the offspring.
Page 46 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 54 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
Page 44 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.