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 vii
... 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 capital . - Faith . CHAPTER VIII MAN ..210 ...
... 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 capital . - Faith . CHAPTER VIII MAN ..210 ...
Pagina viii
... PRESENT ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION The struggle for existence . - Natural selection . - Correlation of Fortuitous variation . - Origin of the fittest . - Nägeli's theory : I dency supreme . - Weismann and the Neo - Darwinians ...
... PRESENT ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION The struggle for existence . - Natural selection . - Correlation of Fortuitous variation . - Origin of the fittest . - Nägeli's theory : I dency supreme . - Weismann and the Neo - Darwinians ...
Pagina xiii
... present . Hence - pardon the reiteration — if we can once trace this sequence of dominant functions , whose evolution has filled past ages , we can safely foretell something at least of man's future development . The argument and method ...
... present . Hence - pardon the reiteration — if we can once trace this sequence of dominant functions , whose evolution has filled past ages , we can safely foretell something at least of man's future development . The argument and method ...
Pagina 2
... present and future occup the rest of the book . Whence we came is impor only in so far as it teaches us humility and yet ass us that we may be Godlike because we are His ha work and children , " heirs of God and joint heirs w Christ of ...
... present and future occup the rest of the book . Whence we came is impor only in so far as it teaches us humility and yet ass us that we may be Godlike because we are His ha work and children , " heirs of God and joint heirs w Christ of ...
Pagina 3
... present existing , species only mediately the result of a creative act . The first living germ , whenever and however created , was in- fused with power to give birth to higher species . Of these and their descendants some would ...
... present existing , species only mediately the result of a creative act . The first living germ , whenever and however created , was in- fused with power to give birth to higher species . Of these and their descendants some would ...
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