The Whence and the Whither of Man: A Brief History of His Origin and Development Through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895C. Scribner's son, 1896 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina vii
... future supremacy , but often at the cost of present hardship . - Conformity as obedience to the laws of our being . - Environment best understood through the study of the human mind . - Productiveness and prospectiveness of vital ...
... future supremacy , but often at the cost of present hardship . - Conformity as obedience to the laws of our being . - Environment best understood through the study of the human mind . - Productiveness and prospectiveness of vital ...
Pagina ix
... future you know less . " I fear that many share his opinion , although they might not express it so emphatically . It would seem , therefore , to be in order to show that science is now competent to deal with this question ; not that ...
... future you know less . " I fear that many share his opinion , although they might not express it so emphatically . It would seem , therefore , to be in order to show that science is now competent to deal with this question ; not that ...
Pagina xiii
... future man will be more and more com- pletely controlled by the very highest powers or aims to which this sequence points . Otherwise we must disbelieve the continuity of history . But the germs of the future are always concealed in the ...
... future man will be more and more com- pletely controlled by the very highest powers or aims to which this sequence points . Otherwise we must disbelieve the continuity of history . But the germs of the future are always concealed in the ...
Pagina 2
... future occupy all the rest of the book . Whence we came is important only in so far as it teaches us humility and ... future only from the past . Its answer to the question whither must be an inference from its knowledge as to whence we ...
... future occupy all the rest of the book . Whence we came is important only in so far as it teaches us humility and ... future only from the past . Its answer to the question whither must be an inference from its knowledge as to whence we ...
Pagina 15
... future , pre- pare for its emergencies , and avoid or wisely meet , its dangers . And we rely on these laws of history be- cause they are the embodiment of ages of human ex- perience . Whatever be our system of philosophy we all prac ...
... future , pre- pare for its emergencies , and avoid or wisely meet , its dangers . And we rely on these laws of history be- cause they are the embodiment of ages of human ex- perience . Whatever be our system of philosophy we all prac ...
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advance amoeba amphibia anatomical ancestors animal kingdom annelid apes appear appetite archenteron attained become beginning better birds body brain cells cerebrum characteristics conformity to environment conscious degeneration dominant ectoderm embryo embryology entoderm experience eyes fish functions future ganglion gastrula germ-plasm give groups heredity higher animals higher forms highest human hydra important increase individual insect instinct intelligence jaws knowledge laws layer legs living locomotion lower mammals man's marsupial ment mental mind mode modified mollusks moral motives muscles muscular muscular system natural selection nephridia nerve nervous system never notochord nutriment organs oxygen parapodia perception possible primitive probably progress protoplasm protozoa purely reflex action reptiles result schematic worm segments selfish sense-organs sequence shell skeleton species spermatozoa stage structure struggle surface survive swimming theory of evolution tion tissues true truth turbellaria unselfishness variation velopment vertebral column vertebrates volvox young