Man, where, whence, and whither: a glance at man in his natural-history relationsEdmonston and Douglas, 1867 - 199 pages |
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... gradually have arisen , the mind is not only to a certain degree satisfied , but a check is given to that indolent philosophy which refers to a miracle whatever appear- ances , in the material and moral worlds , it is unable to explain ...
... gradually have arisen , the mind is not only to a certain degree satisfied , but a check is given to that indolent philosophy which refers to a miracle whatever appear- ances , in the material and moral worlds , it is unable to explain ...
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... gradually have arisen , the mind is not only to a certain degree satisfied , but a check is given to that indolent philosophy which refers to a miracle whatever appear- ances , in the material and moral worlds , it is unable to explain ...
... gradually have arisen , the mind is not only to a certain degree satisfied , but a check is given to that indolent philosophy which refers to a miracle whatever appear- ances , in the material and moral worlds , it is unable to explain ...
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... gradual shading of form into form in nature , it is easier , and indeed more rational , to believe in modification of original type - forms than in the creation of new forms for every " Every organised being , " says Cuvier , " forms a ...
... gradual shading of form into form in nature , it is easier , and indeed more rational , to believe in modification of original type - forms than in the creation of new forms for every " Every organised being , " says Cuvier , " forms a ...
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... gradually led to assume national characteristics which ultimately become transmissible and permanent . Hence it is that one people continues indolent and unprogressive , while another exhibits incessant activity and progress ; that one ...
... gradually led to assume national characteristics which ultimately become transmissible and permanent . Hence it is that one people continues indolent and unprogressive , while another exhibits incessant activity and progress ; that one ...
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... gradually acquired , gradually become hereditary , and ultimately assume , by cumulative transmission , the magnitude of racial characteristics . " The mould , " says the late lamented Edward Forbes , " in which the character of a ...
... gradually acquired , gradually become hereditary , and ultimately assume , by cumulative transmission , the magnitude of racial characteristics . " The mould , " says the late lamented Edward Forbes , " in which the character of a ...
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Page 135 - Darwin's views aside, the whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world, and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are coordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless...
Page ii - In examining the history of mankind, as well as in examining the phenomena of the material world, when we cannot trace the process by which an event has been produced, it is often of importance to be able to show how it may have been produced by natural causes.
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