 ... might be formed, — no shadow of reason can be assigned for the belief that variations, alike in nature and the result of the same general laws, which have been the groundwork through natural selection of the formation of the most perfectly adapted...  Nature - Page 101edited by - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 492 pages
...intentionally guided in order that the greyhound, for instance, that perfect image of symmetry and vigor, might be formed, — no shadow of reason can be assigned...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 - Domestic animals - 1898 - 522 pages
...perfect image of symmetry and vigour, might be formed, ~ no shadow of reason can bo assigned for tlie belief that variations, alike in nature and the result...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much wo may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray iu his belief " that "... | |
 | John Lord - History - 1902 - 528 pages
...vigor, might be formed, — no shadow of reason can be assigned for the belief that variations similar in nature and the result of the same general laws...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. Darwin, therefore, was unable to follow the distinguished botanist, Prof. Asa Gray, in his... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1878 - 778 pages
...are not left in doubt. " No shadow of reason," Mr. Darwin continues, "can be assigned for the belief, alike in nature, and the result of the same general...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided." We think that it is tolerably evident that the interest excited by the desire to justify or... | |
 | Science - 1873 - 634 pages
...belief that variations, alike in nature and the result of the same general laws, which have been tho groundwork through natural selection of the formation...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. "t Mr. St. George Mivart's recent book, "The Genesis of Species," is • See "The Reign of... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin - Science - 1958 - 402 pages
...alike in nature and the result of the same general laws, which have been the groundwork through nataral selection of the formation of the most perfectly adapted...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided." — Variation of Animate and Plaatt, 1st Edit. vol. il. p. 46L— FD vantageous nor disadvantageous... | |
 | James R. Moore - Religion - 1981 - 536 pages
...often injurious, to the creatures themselves? . . . 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. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief that 'variation... | |
 | Angelique Richardson - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 284 pages
...George Romanes, 'Recent Critics of Darwinism', Contemporary Review, 53 (1888), 836-54. 78 Origin, 115. through natural selection of the formation 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 - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 432 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." — Variation of Animals and Plants, 1st Edit. vol. ii. p. 431. — FD ' The Origin of Species.... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - Science - 1873 - 606 pages
...if we give up the principle in one case, — if we do not admit that the variations of the primaeval dog were intentionally guided in order that the greyhound,...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided."t Mr. St. George Mivart's recent book, " The Genesis of Species," is * See "The Reign of Law,"... | |
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