Essays on DarwinismLongmans, Green, 1871 - 184 pages |
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abiogenesis ages analogy appear argument Artificial Selection beasts become believe bird brute carboniferous cavern centuries chalk changes character common creation Darwin Darwinian descendants Devonian divine drip earth elephant enormous evidence existence facts faculty fish formation forms fossil genealogies Genesis geologist Geology globe Herbert Spencer human mind hundred hypothesis imagine imperfect instance instinct intelligence interval Kent's cavern language large number less limestone lion living creatures lower animals man's mankind marsupials Matlock millions moral multitude Natural Selection never Noachian Deluge NOACHIAN FLOOD Noah ocean opinion organisms Origin of Species oyster parents perfect period plants powers present day principle probably produce prove races reason record religion require resemblance rock savage scarcely scientific Scripture Silurian simple single specimens sponges stalagmite suppose theory of development thing thought thousand tion Torquay true universal deluge variation vegetable vertebrate Wallace whole writers
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Page 38 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 36 - And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
Page 72 - ... increase or diminution in the number of those she lays : she does not distinguish between her own and those of another species . and when the birth appears of never so different a bird, will cherish it for her own.
Page 79 - The inference I would draw from this class of phenomena is, that a superior intelligence has guided the development of man in a definite direction, and for a special purpose, just as man guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms.
Page 74 - ... the sense in different animals be distinguished by the same common denomination; it seems almost of a different nature. If after this we look into the several inward perfections of cunning and sagacity, or what we generally call instinct...
Page 83 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening ; and he drank of the brook.
Page 74 - The whole chasm in nature, from a plant to a man, is filled up with diverse kinds of creatures, rising one over another, by such a gentle and easy ascent, that the little transitions and deviations from one species to another are almost insensible.
Page 173 - That there are grounds for thinking that specific differences may be developed suddenly instead of gradually. That the opinion that species have definite, though very different, limits to their variability...
Page 49 - The Malay is of short stature, brown-skinned, straight-haired, beardless, and smooth-bodied. The Papuan is taller, is black-skinned, frizzly-haired, bearded, and hairy-bodied. The former is broad-faced, has a small nose, and flat eyebrows ; the latter is long-faced, has a large and prominent nose, and projecting eyebrows. The Malay is bashful, cold, undemonstrative, and quiet ; the Papuan is bold, impetuous, excitable, and noisy. The former is grave and seldom laughs ; the latter is joyous and laughter-loving...
Page 177 - The advantage, whatever it may be, is utterly outbalanced by numerical inferiority. A million creatures are born ; ten thousand survive to produce offspring. One of the million has twice as good a chance as any other of surviving ; but the chances are fifty to one against the gifted individuals being one of the hundred survivors.