 I HAVE hitherto sometimes spoken as if the variations — so common and multiform in organic beings under domestication, and in a lesser degree in those in a state of nature — had been due to chance. This, of course, is a wholly incorrect expression,...  The American Naturalist - Page 2491908Full view - About this book
 | 1896 - 588 pages
...over others.' * In accepting this conclusion, it must be borne in mind that Darwin felt constrained ' to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of ' the cause of each particular variation.' f The research he started carried us behind and beyond the evidence for historic variation. We are... | |
 | Zoology - 1891 - 460 pages
...with those under nature, were due to chance. This, of course, is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of the cause of each particular variation."» I have already quoted Lankester upon this principle and refer below to a passage in which he reiterates... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 854 pages
...ot the meaning of the law." •• This (chance) of course is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves to acknowledge plainly our Ignorance of the cause of each particular variation." '• Why • • . . this or that part should vary more or jess, ire are profoundly ignorant ; nevertheless,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...state of nature — had been due to chance. This, of course, is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of the cause of each particular variation. Some authors believe it to be as much the function of the reproductive system to produce individual... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 506 pages
...state of nature — had been due to chance. This, of course, is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of the cause of each particular variation." Not only, however, do I hold, in common with Mr Darwin, that there must be some cause for these apparently-spontaneous... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 510 pages
...state of nature—had been due to chance. This, of course, is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of the cause of each particular variation." Not only, however, do I hold, in common with Mr Darwin, that there must be some cause for these apparently-spontaneous... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...state of nature — had been due to chance. This, of course, is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of the cause of each particular variation. Some authors believe it to be as much the function of the reproductive system to produce individual... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pages
...of the laws of variation is profound,' and that in speaking of them as due to chance, he means only 'to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of the cause of each particular variation.' Again he says, 'I believe in no law of necessary development.' His theory seems to be far better than... | |
 | Literature - 1867 - 548 pages
...we be of the meaning of the law." " This (chance) of course is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of the cause of each particular variation." " Why .... this or that part should vary more or leas, we are profoundly ignorant ; nevertheless, we... | |
 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - Cosmology - 1867 - 490 pages
...laws of variation is profound;" and says, that in speaking of them as due to chance, he means only " to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of the cause of each particular variation."* Again he says — " I believe in no law of necessary development.'^ This distinction between Mr Darwin's... | |
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