| London coll. of the Presbyterian church in England - 1875 - 268 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." ("Origin of Species," sixth ed., p. 143.) He however argues that, if numerous gradations from... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first kaid that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
| James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1877 - 600 pages
...eye, with all its admirable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
| Science - 1877 - 612 pages
...eye, with all its admirable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
| James Bowling Mozley - History - 1878 - 470 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." But if he thinks the facts of Nature so strong for design — if he thinks there is such an enormous... | |
| American literature - 1880 - 798 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances j:or adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." Yet, having said so much, he makes the attempt to explain its origin — and fails. The reason is obvious... | |
| William Unsworth - 1881 - 384 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivance for adjusting the focus to .different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and .for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." Dr. Elam adds : " Yet, having said so much, he makes the attempt to explain its origin — and fails.... | |
| Samuel Wainwright - Evolution - 1881 - 350 pages
...with all its INIMITABLE contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...aberration, could have been formed by natural selection." He then proceeds to indicate some " probable " stages in the process by which, as he believes, the... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 396 pages
...inimSpeeies, itable contrivances for adjusting the focus page " ' to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
| Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - Electronic journals - 1885 - 430 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex ej-6 to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist... | |
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