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" To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection,... "
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ... - Page 167
by Charles Darwin - 1864 - 440 pages
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Problems of faith, a third series of lectures to young men, delivered at the ...

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...
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; or, The ...

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...
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Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy ..., Volume 14

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...
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Quarterly Journal of Science: 1877, Volume 14

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...
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Essays, Historical and Theological, Volume 2

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...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 32

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...
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The brotherhood of men, its laws and lessons

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....
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Scientific Sophisms: A Review of Current Theories Concerning Atoms, Apes and Men

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...
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Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from 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...
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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Volume 36

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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