 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 584 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....personifying the word Nature; but I mean by Nature, only the aggr£gal£_ac±iorLajid_product of many natural laws, and by laws_the sequence of events as ascertained... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1910 - 496 pages
...have, also, often personified the word Nature ; for I have found it difficult to avoid this ambiguity ; but I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events." But while he thus clearly saw,... | |
 | Hermann Reinheimer - Biology - 1910 - 432 pages
...have also often personified the word Nature ; for I have found it difficult to avoid this ambiguity ; but I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events." In other words, Darwin here... | |
 | Frank Challice Constable - Telepathy - 1911 - 362 pages
...He dealt with the universe as it exists, ex parte any question of why it exists as it does exist. ' 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 edition,... | |
 | Joseph Lane Hancock - Adaptation (Biology) - 1911 - 506 pages
...gravity as ruling the movements of the planets. Moreover, he often personified nature, but he adds: "I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the ascertained sequence of events as ascertained by us." "Under domestication... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - Fiction - 1912 - 312 pages
...of gravity as ruling the movements of planets ? Every one knows what is meant by such metaphorical expressions, and they are almost necessary for brevity...personifying the word 'Nature.' But I mean by Nature the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - Fiction - 1912 - 312 pages
...brevity ; so, again, it is difficult to avoid personifying the word 'Nature.' But I mean by Nature the aggregate action and product of many laws, and...laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." * When the facts intended to be meant by a phrase are thus carefully specified and delimited, the phrase... | |
 | Robert Wilson Shufeldt - African American criminals - 1915 - 442 pages
...personified the word nature," says Darwin, "for I have found it difficult to avoid this ambiguity; but I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events."1 Some of the laws to which... | |
 | Albert Galloway Keller - Evolution - 1915 - 360 pages
...difficult to avoid, we mean here, with Darwin,1 " only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us"; similarly by society, or the social order, we mean here only the aggregate action and product of many... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - Presbyterian Church - 1917 - 584 pages
...of events as ascertained by us." Explaining further, he says: "It is difficult to avoid personifying nature, but I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws" (Origin of Species, ch. iv). This definition of nature was intended to exclude both efficiency... | |
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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. 
