 | 1902 - 200 pages
...accused Newton of introducing "occult qualities and miracles into philosophy." I see no good reasons 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... | |
 | 1902 - 200 pages
...was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed religion." A celebrated author and divine has written to me that "he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few... | |
 | M. Moncalm - 1905 - 324 pages
...and not in all; others have drawn attention to the fact that Darwin could say in all good faith, " I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one." 4 Darwin's line of thought has perhaps not been perfectly grasped, and his commentators have been numerous.... | |
 | Aubrey Lackington Moore - 1905 - 292 pages
...close of the " Origin of Species " he had written in the same spirit, " I see no good * III., P. 64. reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one." * The Bible, no doubt, in its vivid consciousness of the omnipresence of God speaks of everything as... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1906 - 612 pages
...disadvantage of religion is an illegitimate conclusion. Darwin in his great work says, " I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one " (p. 421). And the other great pioneer of evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace, says, " I believe that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 584 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... | |
 | 1909 - 604 pages
...nidjt gern bei biefem ^unlt öerlreilen. Sarluin fdjrcibt 3. S. in feinem "Origin of Species", (S. 466: "A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to believe to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that lie created... | |
 | William Sedgwick - 1913 - 228 pages
...quite right when he said, in regard to the greatest of his 134 books, The Origin of Species, that, " I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one " (Origin of Species, 6th edition, p. 421) . Hence Darwinism, if it had been left in the form in which... | |
 | Josiah Strong - 1915 - 558 pages
...same reason, on the ground that they were antireligious. Mr. Darwin wrote in "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... | |
 | 1875 - 820 pages
...to originate life and the primary mental powers he leaves unquestioned. He says in the " Origin," " I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one," and quotes approvingly the declaration of a celebrated author and divine, '• that he has gradually... | |
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It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed,... 
