| 1880 - 938 pages
...we also find him writing, in the sixth edition of his "Origin of Species" (dated 1873), that he sees "no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one " (p. 421). He reminds us that the law of the attraction of gravity was attacked by Leibnitz as subversive... | |
| Rudolf Schmid - 1882 - 428 pages
...himself. In his earliest work, "Origin of Species," he repeatedly gives this opinion, as on page 421 : "I see no good reason why the views given in this...volume should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1882 - 524 pages
...natural selection. ' I see no good reason,' he says, in the conclusion of The Origin of Species, ' why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.'2 And it should always be borne in mind that, like some other great English scientists, he could... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1882 - 492 pages
...was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as sat versive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion." A celebrated author and divine has written to me that " he has griduiii. " learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity i. " believe that He created... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1883 - 494 pages
...that Leibnitz formerly accused Newton of introducing " occult qualities and miracles into philosophy." I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should ihock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as ihowing how transient such impressions... | |
| John Fordyce - 1883 - 490 pages
...distinguished author of the ' Origin of Species ' himself agrees. ' I see no good reason,' he writes, ' why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 pages
...that Leibnitz formerly accused Newton of introducing "occult qualities and miracles into philosophy." I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery... | |
| Edward Woodall - 1884 - 100 pages
...into the subject, we may quote the following interesting passage from the Origin of Species : — " I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery... | |
| Joseph Smith Van Dyke - 1886 - 494 pages
...at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number." — Idem, p. 432. " I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one." — Idem, p. 428. I. Why use the expressions, "a few forms," " four or five"? Was the line of descent... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 738 pages
...Darwin had really meant to surrender that belief, he would never have written the following words ' : ' I see no good reason why the views given in this volume...that he has gradually learnt to see that it is just :is noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development... | |
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