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| Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...plants are preordained for the sake of the breeder? "But if we give up the principle in one case, . . . no shadow of reason can be assigned for the belief...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided."—' The Variation of Animals and Plants,' 1st Edit. vol. ii. p. 431.—FD " Every one who... | |
| Charles Darwin - Domestic animals - 1887 - 528 pages
...assigned for the belief that variations, alike in nature and the result of the same general laws, whirh have been the groundwork through natural selection...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much wo may wis-h it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief " that... | |
| William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...plants are preordained for the sake of the breeder? "But if we give up the principle in one case, . . . no shadow of reason can be assigned for the belief...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided." — ' The Variation of Animals and Plants,' 1st Edit. vol. ii. p. 431.— FD " Every one who... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 548 pages
...the result of the same general laws which have formed the groundwork, through natural selection, for the formation of the most perfectly adapted animals in the world, man included, without intentional or specific guide." Yet, while he was willing to remain an agnostic, feeling that... | |
| Charles Darwin - Domestic animals - 1890 - 532 pages
...of reason can be assigned for the belief that variations, alike in nature and the result of the Bame general laws, which have been the groundwork through...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief " that "... | |
| Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...are preordained for the sake of the breeder ? " But if we give up the principle in one case, . . . no shadow of reason can be assigned for the belief...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided." — Variation of Animals and Plants, 1st Edit. vol. ii. p. 431— FD drinking, and in the... | |
| St. George Jackson Mivart - Evolution - 1892 - 480 pages
...symmetry and vigour, might be formed—no shadow of reason can be assigned for the belief that the variations, alike in nature, and the result of the...world, MAN INCLUDED, were intentionally and specially guided. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief that " variation... | |
| Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 734 pages
...Him. But can it be reasonably maintained that the Creator intentionally ordered, if we use the words in any ordinary sense, that certain fragments of rock...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in hie belief " that "... | |
| Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 580 pages
...plants are preordained for the sake of the breeder? "But if we give up the principle in one case, . . . no shadow of reason can be assigned for the belief...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided."—' The Variation of Animals and Plants,' 1st Edit. vol. ii. p. 431.— FD " Every one who... | |
| Rev. Bernard Boedder - God - 1896 - 516 pages
...principle in one case, ... no shadow of reason can be assigned for the belief that variations . . . which have been the groundwork through Natural Selection...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided." The doubt expressed in the preceding lines is dwelt upon also in a letter to Miss Julia Wedgwood... | |
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