The Reign of LawG. Routledge, 1873 - 462 pagine |
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abstract action Adam Smith adapted adjustment agency animal appear applied arise Atheism beauty believe body colour combination conceive conception connexion contrivance Correlation of Growth Creation curious Darwin definite difficulty direction distinction doctrine effect equally example exert existence external faculties feathers flight flying Force of Gravity function G. H. Lewes human Humming Birds idea infinite instincts invariable involves J. S. Mill kind knowledge Labellum labour language laws of Nature less Man-the material Matter means mechanical ment mental metaphysical methods Mill motion motives natural Forces Natural Law Natural Selection Necessitarian necessity nectary never observed Order operation Order of facts organs Origin of Species pheno phenomena of Mind Philosophy principle produce purpose question reason recognise Reign of Law relation resisting result Science sense Species stroke structure Supernatural theory theory of flight things thought tion true truth variety velocity whilst whole wing word
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Pagina 30 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Pagina 104 - The electric organs of fishes offer another case of special difficulty; for it is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced.
Pagina 335 - ... to demonstrate, that the most effectual plan for advancing a people to greatness, is to maintain that order of things which nature has pointed out ; by allowing every man, as long as he observes the rules of justice, to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and his capital into the freest competition with those of his fellow-citizens.
Pagina 263 - Thus, whatever system of organs be studied, the comparison of their modifications in the ape series leads to one and the same result — that the structural differences which separate man from the gorilla and the chimpanzee are not so great as those which separate the gorilla from the lower apes.
Pagina 217 - His theory seems to be far better than a mere theory — to be an established scientific truth — in so far as it accounts, in part at least, for the success and establishment and spread of new forms when they have arisen.
Pagina 128 - The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Pagina 72 - All bodies attract each other directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance.
Pagina 346 - The mill-owners collected, as apprentices, boys and girls, youths and men, and women, of all ages. In very many cases no provision adequate, or even decent, was provided for their accommodation. The hours of labor were excessive. The ceaseless and untiring agency of machines kept no reckoning of the exhaustion of human nerves. The factory system had not been many years in operation when its effects were seen. A whole generation were growing up under conditions of physical degeneracy, of mental ignorance,...
Pagina 129 - Ser Federigo thought not of the chase; The tender vision of her lovely face, I will not say he seems to see, he sees...
Pagina 61 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.