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" It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical... "
Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical ... - Page 108
1867
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The Quarterly Journal of Science, Volume 3

Science - 1866 - 658 pages
...attributes too much to " Nature," and too little to God. " It has been gaid," he himself remarks,* " that I speak of natural selection as an active power...of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and implied by such metaphorical expressions ; and they are almost necessary...
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Quarterly Journal of Science: 1866, Volume 3

Science - 1866 - 736 pages
...attributes too much to " Nature," and too little to trod. li It has Ijeen gaid," he himself remarks,* " that I speak of natural selection as an active power...of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is mount and implied by such metaphorical expressions ; and they are almost necessary...
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species

Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 598 pages
...enlarged on as an established fact. In the fourth chapter, the case is stated thus. ' It has been often said that I speak of Natural Selection as an active...Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such inetap/iorical expressions, and they are almost necessary for brevity. So, again, it is difficult to...
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What is Darwinism?

Charles Hodge - Evolution - 1874 - 190 pages
...etc. In answer to this objection, he says : " It has been said, that I speak of natural selection as a power or deity ; but who objects to an author speaking...attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planet?" He admits that in the literal sense of the words, natural selection is a false term ; but...
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; or, The ...

Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...— and yet an acid cannot strictly bo said to elect the base with which it in preference combines. It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity ; bat who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the...
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Evolution, Old and New: Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and ...

Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 402 pages
...and not appreciably longer expression at their disposal. " It has been said," continues Mr. Darwin, " that I speak of natural selection as an active power...to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity ? Everyone knows what is meant and implied by such, metaphorical expressions, and they are almost necessary...
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Journal, Volume 3

Liverpool Geological Association - Geology - 1883 - 182 pages
...thus be superior to those of man ? Now, I am quite aware that Mr. Darwin has said "It has been often said that I speak of Natural Selection as an active power or deity. Every one knows what is meant by such metaphorical expressions and they are almost necessary for brevity....
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Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 396 pages
...sometimes speak of natural selection as an intelligent power ; in the same way as astronomers speak of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets, or as agriculturists speak of man making domestic races by his power of selection. In the one case,...
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The errors of evolution, ed., with an intr., by H.L. Hastings

Robert Patterson - 1885 - 324 pages
...misunderstand him when he speaks of natural selection "as a power," he says, " but who objects to any author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets?" Mr. Darwin does not confine himself to mere reasoning; he permits himself to ridicule the idea of the...
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The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume 1

Charles Darwin - Domestic animals - 1887 - 504 pages
...sometimes speak of natural selection as an intelligent power ; — in the same way as astronomers speak of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets, or as agriculturists speak of man making domestic races by hi« power of selection. In the one case,...
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