The Whence and the Whither of Man: A Brief History of His Origin and Development Through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895W. Blackwood and Sons, 1896 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina xiii
... least of man's future development . The argument and method is therefore purely his- torical . Here and there we will try to find why and how things had to be so . But all such digressions are of small account compared with the fact ...
... least of man's future development . The argument and method is therefore purely his- torical . Here and there we will try to find why and how things had to be so . But all such digressions are of small account compared with the fact ...
Pagina xv
... least , because more completely conformed to environment . If this be true , and it must be true unless our theory of evolution be false , higher forms are more completely conformed to their environment than lower ; and man has attained ...
... least , because more completely conformed to environment . If this be true , and it must be true unless our theory of evolution be false , higher forms are more completely conformed to their environment than lower ; and man has attained ...
Pagina 2
... to the questi whither must be an inference from its knowledge as whence we have come . The Bible looks mainly at th present and future ; Science must at least begin wit the study of the past . The deciphering of man's.
... to the questi whither must be an inference from its knowledge as whence we have come . The Bible looks mainly at th present and future ; Science must at least begin wit the study of the past . The deciphering of man's.
Pagina 5
... least is glorified by the power to give rise to such beauty . And is not the creation of the seed of a vio- let or rose something infinitely grander than the deck- ing of a flowerless plant with newly created roses ? The attainment of ...
... least is glorified by the power to give rise to such beauty . And is not the creation of the seed of a vio- let or rose something infinitely grander than the deck- ing of a flowerless plant with newly created roses ? The attainment of ...
Pagina 8
... least , of a similar mo thought persisted by the Greek Fathers of the Chu and disappeared , if ever , with the predominance Latin theology . To the oriental the idea of evolut is natural . The earth is to him no inert , resist clod ...
... least , of a similar mo thought persisted by the Greek Fathers of the Chu and disappeared , if ever , with the predominance Latin theology . To the oriental the idea of evolut is natural . The earth is to him no inert , resist clod ...
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