Evolution1881 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absolute action adaptation admit animal antecedent appears artificial selection atoms causation Century changes classes conceive conception consciousness course of Nature creation Darwin design in Nature divine doctrine of evolution earth efficient elements evidence evolutionist evolved existence experience explain express facts final causes forms genesis higher human mind hypothesis ical idea ideal induction JOSEPH COOK knowledge living Malthusianism marsupials matter means ment mental merely Mesohippus Miohippus miracles modern moral motion natural law natural selection object observation organic origin Origin of Species Orohippus persistent phenomena philosophy physical postulate present principle problem Protohippus question race reason regard to consequences relation relative realities result scientific seems sense sexual selection significance SIMON NEWCOMB species Spencer Spinoza stage successive supposed teleological theism theology theory of evolution things thinkers thought tion true truth unity universe Wallace whole world-formula
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 547 - There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides, met To view the last of me, a living frame *• For one more picture ! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, And blew. 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came?
Seite 568 - I feel bound to make before you is that I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern, in that Matter which we, in our ignorance, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life.
Seite 644 - ... not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore. I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.
Seite 571 - Whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, Art, this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout.
Seite 644 - I have now recapitulated the facts and considerations which have thoroughly convinced me that species have been modified during a long course of descent. This has been effected chiefly through the natural selection of numerous successive, slight, favourable variations; aided in an important manner by the inherited effects of the use and disuse of parts...
Seite 451 - Chartism, and they have no poverty: and all that these advantages seem to have done for them (notwithstanding some incipient signs of a better tendency) is that the life of the whole of one sex is devoted to dollar-hunting, and of the other to breeding dollar-hunters.
Seite 547 - ... as the fool's heart, Built of brown stone, without a counterpart In the whole world. The tempest's mocking elf Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
Seite 602 - Amid all the mysteries by which we are surrounded, nothing is more certain than that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Seite 644 - But as my conclusions have lately been much misrepresented, and it has been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.