 | Science - 1866 - 736 pages
...Ijeen gaid," he himself remarks,* " 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 mount and implied by such metaphorical expressions ; and they are almost necessary... | |
 | Science - 1866 - 658 pages
...been gaid," he himself remarks,* " 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 implied by such metaphorical expressions ; and they are almost necessary... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...stated thus. ' It has been often said that I speak of Natural Selection as an active power or deity, but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction...Nature only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws, the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 424 pages
...stated thus. ' It has been often said that I speak of Natural Selection as an active power or deity, but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction...Nature only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws, the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 598 pages
...stated thus. ' It has been often said that I speak of Natural Selection as an active power or deity, but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction...Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such inetap/iorical expressions, and they are almost necessary for brevity. So, again, it is difficult to... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - Natural theology - 1872 - 578 pages
...chapter he remarks, " 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...aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by-laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." So far this is clear enough, and we learn that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1873 - 492 pages
...preference combines. 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...aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by lawa the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial objections... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1873 - 662 pages
...invokes not His aid in the processes of nature ; nor yet does he deify nature, but says this of her : " It is difficult to avoid personifying the word nature...nature, only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." It is obvious that the effect of the... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1873 - 626 pages
...invokes not His aid in the processes of nature ; nor yet does he deify nature, but says this of her : "It is difficult to avoid personifying the word nature...nature, only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." It is obvious that the effect of the... | |
 | Thomas Suter Ackland - Bible and science - 1873 - 250 pages
...expressly excludes this sense of the word, in a sentence which seems to involve a self-contradiction. "I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by law only the ascertained sequence of events3." Law, in this sense, then, is simply the statement of... | |
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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 ? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical... 
