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... natural selection is a good example of scien- tific reasoning . Darwin was not the author of the idea that species originated through the gradual transformation of simpler , primitive forms . That idea was already present as a ...
... natural selection is a good example of scien- tific reasoning . Darwin was not the author of the idea that species originated through the gradual transformation of simpler , primitive forms . That idea was already present as a ...
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... natural selection . Let us consider the links of this chain in order . - The first link is the fact that no two descendants of the same parents are quite alike . The minute differences between them are what he calls varia- tions . The ...
... natural selection . Let us consider the links of this chain in order . - The first link is the fact that no two descendants of the same parents are quite alike . The minute differences between them are what he calls varia- tions . The ...
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... selection . : The fourth link is the fact of enormous fecun- dity the significance of which was suggested to Darwin ... natural selection which is merely a com- prehensive term for the total process by which Nature , working through the ...
... selection . : The fourth link is the fact of enormous fecun- dity the significance of which was suggested to Darwin ... natural selection which is merely a com- prehensive term for the total process by which Nature , working through the ...
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... natural selection bridges this gap between primordial and present forms of plant and animal life ; inasmuch as it shows the whole history of plant and animal life as one continuous system ; inasmuch as by its aid we can see how each ...
... natural selection bridges this gap between primordial and present forms of plant and animal life ; inasmuch as it shows the whole history of plant and animal life as one continuous system ; inasmuch as by its aid we can see how each ...
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... Natural selection is the cause of exist- ing species in the sense which we have attributed to the term " cause " ; that is , natural selection represents the group of forces and relations which are most immediately connected with the ...
... Natural selection is the cause of exist- ing species in the sense which we have attributed to the term " cause " ; that is , natural selection represents the group of forces and relations which are most immediately connected with the ...
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Page 126 - And only the Master shall praise us. and only the Master shall blame: And no one shall work for money. and no one shall work for fame. But each for the joy of the working. and each. in his separate star. Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
Page 227 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 163 - YES! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. But when the moon their hollows lights, And they are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing; And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the sounds and channels pour — Oh!
Page 58 - This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Page 321 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 140 - THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that " this is I :" But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of "I," and "me," And finds "I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Page 89 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Page 262 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things...
Page 10 - The senses at first let in particular ideas, and furnish the yet empty cabinet ; and the mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the memory, and names got to them.
Page 151 - A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again : The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know...