 | Great Britain - 1880 - 1118 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." Yet, having said so much, he makes the attempt to explain its origin — and fails. The reason is obvious... | |
 | Paul Janet - Materialism - 1866 - 216 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree Eeason ought to conquer imagination ; though I have felt the difficulty far too keenly to be surprised... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
 | Paul Janet - Materialism - 1867 - 214 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree Reason ought to conquer imagination ; though I have felt the difficulty far too keenly to be surprised... | |
 | Religion and science - 1867 - 524 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1863 - 550 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances ' for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting ' different amounts of light, and for the correction...confess, absurd in the highest possible ' degree.' In this we most cordially acquiesce ; and yet it is necessary for the stability of the theory ; for... | |
 | English literature - 1869 - 584 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.' But if he thinks the facts of Nature so strong for design — if he thinks there is such an enormous... | |
 | Charles Joseph Parker - Religion and science - 1870 - 204 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...Selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."1 So it does seem absurd at first sight, in the same way that a self-formed watch would have... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - Ethics - 1873 - 320 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...aberration, could have been formed by natural selection.' For since, as he proceeds unanswerably to argue, ' numerous gradations, from an imperfect and simple... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - History - 1874 - 412 pages
...eye, with its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.' Bat he soon returns to his new wantonness of conjecture, and, without the shadow of a fact, contents... | |
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection,... 
