The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of ManJ. Pott, 1894 - 346 Seiten |
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Alfred Russel Wallace Altruism animal kingdom appear Ascent become beginning biological Birds body brain cells child clay Co-operation course creation creatures Darwin earth Edward Caird embryo Embryology Environment ethical Evolution of Sex evolutional philosophy evolutionist evolved existence fact factor faculties Family Father female forces forms further grow hand Herbert Spencer higher highest human individual infinite Language least less living Love lower animals male Mammalia Man's material means ment Mental Evolution Mind moral Mother muscles nations Natural Selection never organism origin Origin of Species ovum parents pass perfect physical physiological plant possible primitive principle progress protoplasm race religion Reproduction roots savage scientific seen sense side Sigillaria social species speech stage Stigmaria Struggle teleology theory things tion tree tribes ultra-rational vestigial structures whole wholly words
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Seite 37 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the creator into a few forms or into one; and that, while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Seite 130 - For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them, of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words, or any other general signs.
Seite 22 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Seite 238 - ... those communities, which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members, would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring.
Seite 205 - When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
Seite 192 - Every body continues in a state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Seite 46 - The truth is, there are two struggles for life in every living thing, — the struggle for life, and the struggle for the life of others. The web of life is woven upon a double set of threads, the second thread distinct in color from the first, and giving a totally different pattern to the finished fabric.
Seite 148 - The mighty moral instincts which have been working in the popular mind have found therein their unconscious voice ; and the single kinglier spirits that have looked deeper into the heart of things, have oftentimes gathered up all they have seen into some one word, which they have launched upon the world, and with which they have enriched it for ever — making in that new word a new region of thought to be henceforward in some sort the common heritage of all.
Seite 192 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled by a force to change that state.