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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... "
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ... - Page 424
by Charles Darwin - 1864 - 440 pages
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Evolution and "the Sex Problem": American Narratives During the Eclipse of ...

Bert Bender - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 414 pages
...Crane explored psychological questions arising from Darwin's prediction in the Origin oj Species that "psychology will be based on a new foundation, that...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation" (488). Darwin himself began to lay the new foundations in his later studies of the human mind, The...
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The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science

W. Edward Craighead, Charles B. Nemeroff - Psychology - 2004 - 1128 pages
...otherwise. Perhaps we may one day achieve that which Darwin predicted in The Origin of Species (1859): "In the distant future I see open fields for far more...researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation." REFERENCE Allman, WF (1994). The stone age present: How evolution has shaped modern life — from sex,...
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The Origins and Nature of Sociality

Robert W. Sussman, Audrey R. Chapman - Social Science - 2004 - 356 pages
...the ancestry of their field dates back to Darwin's 1859 assertion that "In the distant future . . . psychology will be based on a new foundation, that...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation" ([1859] 1985:458). In reality, however, the search for intellectual antecedents for this "discipiine"...
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Christian Humanism: Creation, Redemption, and Reintegration

John P. Bequette - Religion - 2004 - 184 pages
...this process. Charles Darwin anticipated as much in the field of psychology when he wrote: "In the future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each...
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Voices in the Brain: The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Auditory Verbal ...

Sean Spence, Anthony S. David - Auditory hallucinations - 2004 - 164 pages
...have contributed to the long delay in the publication of The Origin of Species. The form of words — "that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation" — is also of note because it expresses clearly Darwin's predilection for a gradualist account of...
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The Descent of Man

Charles Darwin - Science - 2004 - 870 pages
...respectively. While the Origin ostensibly avoids human evolution - apart from the throwaway line near the end, 'light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history' - the subject pervades the text as a ghostly presence (as reviewers realized). Both books can be seen...
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From Atlantis to the Sphinx

Colin Wilson - History - 2004 - 324 pages
...survival of the fittest. There was no mention of man - except a brief comment in the conclusion that 'light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history' - but Darwin's views on that subject emerged clearly in the rest of the book. Man was not 'made in...
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Reader's Digest the Truth about History: How New Evidence is Transforming ...

Reader's Digest - History - 2003 - 328 pages
...human evolution. The British naturalist Charles Darwin, who published the book in 1859, says only that, "light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." The nervous young scientist preferred to leave readers to draw their own conclusions. And draw them...
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Was bedeutet uns Afrika?: zur Darstellung afrikanischer Musik im ...

Florian Carl - Ethnomusicology - 2004 - 190 pages
...Darwins Theorie der natürlichen Auslese 1859 einmal mehr aktualisiert wurde. Darin versprach er: „Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (Darwin [1859] 1958: 458). Unter dem Paradigma des Evolutionismus wurde - zunächst in England - auch...
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Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World

Michael Freeman, Michael J. Freeman, Professor of English Law Michael Freeman - History - 2004 - 332 pages
...113. 205 177 Beer, op. cit., p. 127. 178 Darwin, Origin, op. cit., p. 459. 206 179 Ibid., p. 458 - 'Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history'. 207 180 Ward, op. cit., p. 278. 208 181 C. Kingsley, The Water Babies (London, 209 1863; Penguin edn....
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