Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Based on the Doctrine of Evolution, Volume 2J. R. Osgood, 1875 - Evolution |
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... explained all past geologic phenomena as due to the slow action of the same forces which are still in action over the earth's surface and beneath its crust , so Mr. Darwin , in explaining the evolution of higher from lower forms of life ...
... explained all past geologic phenomena as due to the slow action of the same forces which are still in action over the earth's surface and beneath its crust , so Mr. Darwin , in explaining the evolution of higher from lower forms of life ...
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... explained as the achievement of creative contrivance , are therefore due to the continued survival of the fittest and the continued slaughter of the less adapted plants and animals . Now if the geography and meteorology of the earth ...
... explained as the achievement of creative contrivance , are therefore due to the continued survival of the fittest and the continued slaughter of the less adapted plants and animals . Now if the geography and meteorology of the earth ...
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... explaining the most general phenomena of organic variation , let us in conclusion observe how admir- ably it explains ... explained such otherwise unaccountable facts as the dimorphism of certain flowers , the existence of neuters or ...
... explaining the most general phenomena of organic variation , let us in conclusion observe how admir- ably it explains ... explained such otherwise unaccountable facts as the dimorphism of certain flowers , the existence of neuters or ...
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... explained on this hypothesis- which they cannot be - there would still remain the more remarkable cases of tree - frogs , which resemble bark , and of the so - called leaf - butterflies , which when at rest are indistin- guishable from ...
... explained on this hypothesis- which they cannot be - there would still remain the more remarkable cases of tree - frogs , which resemble bark , and of the so - called leaf - butterflies , which when at rest are indistin- guishable from ...
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... explaining by far the greater part of the colouring found in the animal kingdom . The colours of the vegetal kingdom have , to a considerable extent , been no less satisfactorily explained . " Flowers do not often need protection , but ...
... explaining by far the greater part of the colouring found in the animal kingdom . The colours of the vegetal kingdom have , to a considerable extent , been no less satisfactorily explained . " Flowers do not often need protection , but ...
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Page 409 - Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing which he shall not do : he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellowcreatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Page 465 - Streams will not curb their pride The just man not to entomb, Nor lightnings go aside To give his virtues room; Nor is that wind less rough which blows a good man's barge.
Page 409 - If in ascribing goodness to God, I do not mean what I mean by goodness ; if I do not mean the goodness of which I have some knowledge, but an incomprehensible attribute of an incomprehensible substance, which, for aught I know, may be a totally different quality from that which I love and venerate; what do I mean by calling it goodness ? and what reason have I for venerating it?
Page 272 - No one will ever comprehend the arrested civilizations unless he sees the strict dilemma of early society. Either men had no law at all, and lived in confused tribes, hardly hanging together, or they had to obtain a fixed law by processes of incredible difficulty. Those who surmounted that difficulty soon destroyed all those that lay in their way who did not. And then they themselves were caught in their own yoke. The customary discipline, which could only be imposed on any early men by terrible...
Page 417 - Thus, by the persistence of Force, we really mean the persistence of some Power which transcends our knowledge and conception. The manifestations, as occurring either in ourselves or outside of us, do not persist ; but that which persists is the Unknown Cause of these manifestations. In other words, asserting the persistence of Force, is but another mode of asserting an Unconditioned Reality, without beginning or end.
Page 243 - That the progress of mankind depends on the success with which the laws of phenomena are investigated, and on the extent to which a knowledge of those laws is diffused.
Page 346 - The prolonged helplessness of the offspring must keep the parents together for longer and longer periods in successive epochs ; and when at last the association is so long kept up that the older children are growing mature while the younger ones still need protection, the family relations begin to become permanent. The parents have lived so long in company that to seek new companionships involves some disturbance of ingrained habits...
Page 217 - It is full, in all its provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection of individuals. In fact, and in the view of the men who composed it, it was an aggregation of Jam Hie«. The contrast may be most forcibly expressed by saying that the unit of an ancient society was the Family, of a modern society the individual.
Page 229 - Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of an embryo or the unfolding of a flower.
Page 333 - ... if the states of consciousness which a creature endeavours to maintain are the correlatives of injurious actions, and if the states of consciousness which it endeavours to expel are the correlatives of beneficial actions, it must quickly disappear through persistence in the injurious and avoidance of the beneficial.