 | Henri-Paul Cunningham - Atheism - 1989 - 316 pages
...is implied by such metaphorical expressions ; ami they are almost necessary for brevity. So a gain it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but I mean by Nature, on/y the aggregate action andproduct ofmany natural laws, and by laws the sequence ofevents as ascertained... | |
 | Alvar Ellegård - Science - 1990 - 400 pages
...ruling the movements of the planets? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity....Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us."25) Darwin did not flatly reject... | |
 | Robert Pattison - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 246 pages
...no more than acknowledge its own subjugation to the forces of history or to the I9 tdea, p. 74. 20 ' 'I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us" (Origin of Species, 6th ed.... | |
 | Marilyn Strathern - Social Science - 1992 - 264 pages
...objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets. .. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the...nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us. [The Origin of Species, 1859]... | |
 | Geert Keil - Philosophy - 1993 - 444 pages
...ruling the movements of the planets? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity....Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1998 - 486 pages
...(1861). It is, then, not quite easy to believe him when, in the third edition, he insists parsimoniously: So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the...Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such... | |
 | Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe - Philosophy - 1997 - 276 pages
...ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity....Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such... | |
 | Bob Jessop, Charlie Malcolm-Brown - Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 - 1999 - 776 pages
...false term. "It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity. [. . .] So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the...product of many laws, and by laws the sequence of events ascertained by us."84 Marx wrote in a letter to Engels that Darwin's book on "Natural Selection" contains... | |
 | David N. Livingstone - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 228 pages
...knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary (br brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature; but 1 mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 pages
...ruling the movements of the planets ? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity....Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such... | |
| |
So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us. 
