Analysis of Darwin, Huxley and Lyell, Being a Critical Examination of the Views of These Authors in Regard to the Origin and Antiquitity of ManTuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1866 - 94 עמודים |
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עמוד 78
... Tinière , a torrent which flows into the Lake of Geneva , near Villeneuve . This small delta , to which the stream is annually making additions , is composed of gravel and sand . Its shape is that of a flattened cone , and its internal ...
... Tinière , a torrent which flows into the Lake of Geneva , near Villeneuve . This small delta , to which the stream is annually making additions , is composed of gravel and sand . Its shape is that of a flattened cone , and its internal ...
עמוד 79
... Tinière , where it flows into the Lake of Geneva , like other Alpine torrents issu- ing from ravines or small lateral valleys , forms a rounded , " fan - like " deposit or flattened cone at its mouth . This cone has an inclination of ...
... Tinière , where it flows into the Lake of Geneva , like other Alpine torrents issu- ing from ravines or small lateral valleys , forms a rounded , " fan - like " deposit or flattened cone at its mouth . This cone has an inclination of ...
עמוד 82
... Tinière . Herculaneum furnishes evidence which is deci- sive on this point . The date of its destruction is well known ; and in regard to it , Sir William Hamilton remarks : — “ The matter which covers the ancient town of Herculaneum ...
... Tinière . Herculaneum furnishes evidence which is deci- sive on this point . The date of its destruction is well known ; and in regard to it , Sir William Hamilton remarks : — “ The matter which covers the ancient town of Herculaneum ...
עמוד 83
... Tinière have been , at different intervals and in separate beds , piled up to the height of 32 feet above the lake , which never could have been accomplished by the ordinary , gradual and uniform depo- sition of the river , as Sir ...
... Tinière have been , at different intervals and in separate beds , piled up to the height of 32 feet above the lake , which never could have been accomplished by the ordinary , gradual and uniform depo- sition of the river , as Sir ...
עמוד 84
... Tinière deposit , because it seems one of the strongest cases in the book , and because it is a very fair sample of the manner by which , in every chapter , assumptions and opinions are made to take the place of evidence and reason , in ...
... Tinière deposit , because it seems one of the strongest cases in the book , and because it is a very fair sample of the manner by which , in every chapter , assumptions and opinions are made to take the place of evidence and reason , in ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 10 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
עמוד 30 - 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, religion.
עמוד 30 - Whence but from Heaven could men unskill'd in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths ? or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie ? Unask'd their pains, ungrateful their advice, Starving their gain, and martyrdom their price.
עמוד 21 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
עמוד 14 - ... with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing slowly in density, so as to separate into layers of different densities and thicknesses, placed at different distances from each other, and with the surfaces of each layer slowly changing in form. Further, we must suppose that there is a power, represented by natural selection...
עמוד 12 - It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving, and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
עמוד 36 - Whence our race has come; what are the limits of our power over nature, and of nature's power over us; to what goal we are tending; are the problems which present themselves anew and with undiminished interest to every man born into the world.
עמוד 60 - At the same time, no one is more strongly convinced than I am of the vastness of the gulf between civilized man and the brutes ; or is more certain that, whether from them or not, he is assuredly not of them.
עמוד 11 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
עמוד 42 - ... remain then but one order for comparison, that of the Apes (using that word in its broadest sense), and the question for discussion would narrow itself to this — is Man so different from any of these Apes that he must form an order by himself? Or does he differ less from them than they differ from one another, and hence must take his place in the same order with them?