 For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived.  Journal - Page 48by Liverpool Geological Association - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...are we to look for the candid admission of difficulty with which Mr. Darwin almost opens his work ? "I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed...directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides... | |
 | 1860 - 446 pages
...geological record" (p. 464). Besides this, his proofs are all capable of a different interpretation. " I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed...directly opposite to those at which I have arrived" (p. 2). And very many of them are only founded on our ignorance and inability to answer Ms questions,... | |
 | 1860 - 966 pages
...refcff-ncos on which my conclusions have been grounded ; and I hope in a future work to do this. For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed...directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can he obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...references, on which my conclusions have been grounded ; and I hope in a future work to do this. For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed...directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...references, on which my conclusions have been grounded ; and I hope in a future work to do this. For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot t>e adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived.... | |
 | 1864 - 668 pages
...confesses, that he is " well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in his volume on which fuels cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which he has arrived" (p. 2) ; he very ingeniously claims all these conBictiug facts as illustrations of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 pages
...references, i in which my conclusions have been grounded; and I hope in a future work to do this. For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed...directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides... | |
 | 1866 - 638 pages
...to admit the deficiency of demonstration. As he candidly admits, " there is scarcely a single point on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently...directly opposite to those at which I have arrived." All depends on the question whether the forces of nature are self-existing ; and what is meant by "... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1873 - 310 pages
...references, on which my conclusions have been grounded ; and I hope in a future work to do this. For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed...directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides... | |
 | 1867 - 510 pages
...fact, Mr. Darwin confesses that he is " well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in his volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently...to conclusions directly opposite to those at which he has arrived." (p. 2.) Yet he very ingeniously claims all these conflicting facts as illustrations... | |
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