 | William Whewell - 1841 - 256 pagine
...must silence the boastings of science as well as the repinmgs of adversity. Indeed, science allows us, far more clearly than the conceptions of every...can perceive that events are brought about, not by msolated interpositions of divine power exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pagine
...-ft' •'- - - . •/'^,-;-'-, -r. --;•;•:>': ; - : - ', - .-" f < m ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. " But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far aa this — we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine... | |
 | William Whewell - 1862 - 352 pagine
...undefiled, and so fit ministers in the temple of God. CHAP. VIII.—On the Physical Agency of the Deity. I. WE are not to expect that physical investigation can...to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;—we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of divine power... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pagine
... . Z. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. " But with regard to the material world, we can at least...particular case, but by the establishment of general laws." W. WHKWELL : Bridgewater Treatise. " To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 pagine
... ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. " But with regard to the material world, wo can at least go so Jar as this — we can perceive that events are brought...particular case, but by the establishment of general laws." WHEWELL: Bridgetcater Treatise. " The only distinct meaning of the word ' natural ' is stated, ftrtd,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1870 - 468 pagine
...regard to the material world, wo can at least go so far ta this — we can perceive that events arc brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine...particular case, but by the establishment of general laws." W. WHKWELL : Bridgtwattr Trealite. " To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pagine
...AND COMPANY, 849 4 551 BROADWAY. 1875. " Bat with regard to the material world, we can nt least go go far as this — we can perceive that events are brought...particular case, but by the establishment of general laws." WHEWEI.L: Brid,jctcater Treatise. " The only distinct meaning of the word ' natural ' is ttated, fxrd,... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1877 - 418 pagine
...say, that, under a system in which so much is done " by the establishment of general laws," it is 1 " But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this—we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of divine power,... | |
 | 1880 - 950 pagine
...able author of " A History of the Inductive Sciences ;" that from Butler has already been adduced : " But with regard to the material world, we can at least...particular case, but by the establishment of general laws." (Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise.) Another extract from Dr. Gray we will present the reader. In physical... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1880 - 1104 pagine
...mottoes, the following passages which seem to show that Mr. Darwin is at heart a deeply religious man : "But with regard to the material world we can at least go so far as this—we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of divine power,... | |
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But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this — we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws. 
