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 5
... producing them , immediate creation of every flowering species , or development of the flower out of the green leaves of some old club moss or similar form ? The latter seems to me at least by far the higher mode . And to have created a ...
... producing them , immediate creation of every flowering species , or development of the flower out of the green leaves of some old club moss or similar form ? The latter seems to me at least by far the higher mode . And to have created a ...
Pagina 7
... produced the brood of the human race . " Here the formative process is a birth , not a creation ; it is evolution pure and simple . " According to the ancient view , " says Professor Lewis , " the present world was a growth ; it was ...
... produced the brood of the human race . " Here the formative process is a birth , not a creation ; it is evolution pure and simple . " According to the ancient view , " says Professor Lewis , " the present world was a growth ; it was ...
Pagina 9
... producing benefi- cently and kindly at the word of a loving God is foreign to all our inherited modes of thought . And our views of the heart of Nature are about as correct as those of our ancestors were of God . A little more of ...
... producing benefi- cently and kindly at the word of a loving God is foreign to all our inherited modes of thought . And our views of the heart of Nature are about as correct as those of our ancestors were of God . A little more of ...
Pagina 10
... produce new ment may be very briefly stated as follows : 1. There is in Nature a law of heredity ; like begets like . 2. The offspring is never exactly like the parent ; and the members of the second generation differ more or less from ...
... produce new ment may be very briefly stated as follows : 1. There is in Nature a law of heredity ; like begets like . 2. The offspring is never exactly like the parent ; and the members of the second generation differ more or less from ...
Pagina 11
... produces often many thousands , sometimes hun- dreds of thousands of eggs . Insects generally from a hundred to a thousand . Even birds , slowly as they increase , produce in a lifetime probably at least from twelve to twenty eggs . Now ...
... produces often many thousands , sometimes hun- dreds of thousands of eggs . Insects generally from a hundred to a thousand . Even birds , slowly as they increase , produce in a lifetime probably at least from twelve to twenty eggs . Now ...
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