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 xiii
... things had to be so . But all such digressions are of small account compared with the fact that things were or are thus and so . And a mistaken explana- tion will not invalidate the facts of history . The subject of our history is the ...
... things had to be so . But all such digressions are of small account compared with the fact that things were or are thus and so . And a mistaken explana- tion will not invalidate the facts of history . The subject of our history is the ...
Pagina 2
... thing but ultimate failure await the race ? Is human history to prove a story told by an idiot , or does it " signify " something ? Is the great march of human- ity , which Carlyle so vividly depicts , " from the inane to the inane , or ...
... thing but ultimate failure await the race ? Is human history to prove a story told by an idiot , or does it " signify " something ? Is the great march of human- ity , which Carlyle so vividly depicts , " from the inane to the inane , or ...
Pagina 7
... things , says : " Chaos was and Night , and Erebus black , and wide Tartarus . No earth , nor air nor sky was yet ... thing antecedent , not merely as a cause but as its seed , 66 embryo or principium . Plato's world was a ' zoon THE ...
... things , says : " Chaos was and Night , and Erebus black , and wide Tartarus . No earth , nor air nor sky was yet ... thing antecedent , not merely as a cause but as its seed , 66 embryo or principium . Plato's world was a ' zoon THE ...
Pagina 8
... thing , a natural production . ” Furthermore , to the ancient writers of the Bible the idea of origin by birth from some antecedent form— and this is the essential idea of evolution - was per- fectly natural . They speak of the ...
... thing , a natural production . ” Furthermore , to the ancient writers of the Bible the idea of origin by birth from some antecedent form— and this is the essential idea of evolution - was per- fectly natural . They speak of the ...
Pagina 28
... thing more and grander than they . You will catch glimpses of the divinity of Nature . Most of us travel threescore years and ten stone - blind in a world of marvellous beauty . Why does the artist see so much more in every fence ...
... thing more and grander than they . You will catch glimpses of the divinity of Nature . Most of us travel threescore years and ten stone - blind in a world of marvellous beauty . Why does the artist see so much more in every fence ...
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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