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 Sons, 1897 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina xi
... progress ? Even if we cannot accurately portray the anatomical details of a single ancestral stage , can we perhaps dis- cover what function governed its life and was the aim of its existence ? Did it live to eat , or to move , or to ...
... progress ? Even if we cannot accurately portray the anatomical details of a single ancestral stage , can we perhaps dis- cover what function governed its life and was the aim of its existence ? Did it live to eat , or to move , or to ...
Pagina xiv
... destroy- ing good and bad , fit and unfit , alike . But our history of animal and human progress shows us successive stages , each a little higher than the pre- ceding , and surviving , for a time at least xiv INTRODUCTION.
... destroy- ing good and bad , fit and unfit , alike . But our history of animal and human progress shows us successive stages , each a little higher than the pre- ceding , and surviving , for a time at least xiv INTRODUCTION.
Pagina 4
... progress has added nothing to the total of life ; its degeneration harmed no one , hardly even itself ; it was doomed from the start . Progress there has been , in a sense . The Creator has 99 placed ever higher forms on the globe . But ...
... progress has added nothing to the total of life ; its degeneration harmed no one , hardly even itself ; it was doomed from the start . Progress there has been , in a sense . The Creator has 99 placed ever higher forms on the globe . But ...
Pagina 15
... progress moving steadily on through past centuries , we have full confidence that these move- ments will continue in the future . The study of his- tory should make us seers . But the line of human progress is like a mountain road ...
... progress moving steadily on through past centuries , we have full confidence that these move- ments will continue in the future . The study of his- tory should make us seers . But the line of human progress is like a mountain road ...
Pagina 16
... progress . Many of the most promising social movements are like by - roads which , at first less steep and difficult , end sooner or later against impassable obstacles . And even if there be a main line of march , advance seems to ...
... progress . Many of the most promising social movements are like by - roads which , at first less steep and difficult , end sooner or later against impassable obstacles . And even if there be a main line of march , advance seems to ...
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advance amoeba amphibia anatomical ancestors animal kingdom annelid apes appear appetite archenteron attained become better birds body brain cells conformity to environment conscious degeneration dominant ectoderm embryo embryology existence experience eyes fish functions future ganglion gastrula gills give groups 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 membrane ment mental mind mode modified mollusks moral mouth muscles muscular muscular system mutability of species natural selection nephridia nerve nervous system never notochord nutriment organs oxygen parapodia perception perivisceral cavity possible primitive probably progress protoplasm protozoa purely race 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 vertebrates volvox young