 | St. George Jackson Mivart - Evolution - 1871 - 324 pages
...announced the extension of the application of his theory to the very phenomena in question. He says: 1 "In the distant future I see open fields for far more...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." It may not be amiss then to glance slightly at the question, so much disputed, concerning the origin... | |
 | M. B. Craven - God - 1871 - 330 pages
...involved in the origin of the human race. But Prof. Darwin, on the " Origin of Species," (p. 424), says, " In the distant future I see open fields for far more...gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and bis history." If Psychology is to be based on a new foundation, by which light will be thrown on the... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 338 pages
...announced the extension of the application of his theory to the very phenomena in question. He says : ' " In the distant future I see open fields for far more...gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man 1 " Origin of Species," 5th edit., 1869, p. 577 and his history." It may not be amiss then to glance... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1871 - 542 pages
...hinted at another subject of inquiry, when in the last edition of the " Origin" (p. 577) he said, " In the distant future I see open fields for far more...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation." Into these fields of speculation he enters boldly in the present work, and arrives at the conclusion... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1872 - 768 pages
...still further shown by what Mr. Darwin says of our mental powers. " In the distant future," he says, " I see open fields for far more important researches....will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." 2 Of this prediction he has himself attempted the verification in his recent work on the " Descent... | |
 | William Fraser - Bible and science - 1873 - 406 pages
...in search of other objects than our metaphysicians have hitherto kept in view. His statement is, " In the distant future, I see open fields for far more important 1 "Man's Place in Nature," p. 102. 3 Ibid, Foot-note, p. 103. * Ibid, p. 102. * Ibid, p. no. 6 " Descent... | |
 | Charles Hodge - History - 1874 - 190 pages
...by irrational creatures. Nor does he stop there; he includes man within the sweep of the same law. " In the distant future I see open fields for far more...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." (p. 577) The " distant future " was near at hand. In his introduction to his work on the " Descent... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 406 pages
...the flight of his own more soaring imagination : — ' In the distant future I see,' says Darwin, ' open fields for far more important researches. Psychology...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.' ' Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered... | |
 | William Fraser - Bible and science - 1875 - 452 pages
...track in search of other objects than our metaphysicians have hitherto kept in view. His statement is, "In the distant future, I see open fields for far...be thrown on the origin of man and his history."! The contests of metaphysicians will cease, even when the phrenologist has transferred his examination... | |
 | English literature - 1875 - 702 pages
...which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form " (Ibid., p. 484). " In the distant future I see open fields for far more...power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown upon the origin of man and his history " (Ibid., p. 488). " . . . I view all beings, not as special... | |
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In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his... 
