| William Penman Lyon - 1872 - 202 pages
...of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not appear, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by Natural Selection,...their structure and habits, with larger and larger 0 mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." Lord C. I never heard of a whale catching... | |
| William Penman Lyon - Evolution (Biology) - 1872 - 168 pages
...of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not appear, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by Natural Selection,...and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with largpr and larger c months, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." Lord C. I never... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1875 - 808 pages
...constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, we can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." (Origin, p. 141.) This is Mr. Darwin's scientific reasoning It is the deity of natural selection intently... | |
| Thomas Rawson Birks - 1876 - 346 pages
...all sorts of purposes, as a flyflapper, a prehensile organ, or an aid in turning I see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by Natural Selection, more and more aquatic in their structure, with larger and larger mouths, till a creati/re was produced as monstrous as a whale....! can see no... | |
| Jesse Burgess Thomas - Relgion and science - 1877 - 240 pages
...constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by natural selection...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." To which we can only reply with Polonius in the play, " very like a whale." That in the "struggle for... | |
| Francis Orpen Morris - Evolution (Biology) - 1877 - 56 pages
...Very like a whale !" I think I hear you saying, but I can't help it if you do. " I see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by natural selection more and more aquatic in their habits, with longer and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." Don't... | |
| Samuel Wainwright - Evolution - 1881 - 348 pages
...hours with widely-open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. / see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by Natural Selection...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." 3 With this difference, however : that, 1 " Origin of Species," First Edition, p. 214. 3 Ibid., p.... | |
| Thomas Rawson Birks - Christianity - 1882 - 344 pages
...in a race of bears being rendered, by Natural Selection, more and more aquatic in their structure, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale....! can see no reason to doubt that female birds, by selecting, during thousands of generations, the most... | |
| Apologetics - 1888 - 492 pages
...constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale ! " Mr. Darwin was eminently deficient in logical ability. To make out his hypothesis he sometimes... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1883 - 872 pages
...of Prof. Huxley's imagination can be seen in the following quotation : — "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by natural selection...larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced monstrous as a whale." In a similar way we might show that the origin of life, and the origin of civilization,... | |
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