The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion... A Century of Revolution - Seite 124von William Samuel Lilly - 1889 - 235 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1887 - 544 Seiten
...species and the individual, are equally parts of that grand sequence of events which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion." 2 He speaks of the laws impressed upon matter by the Creator. 3 He does not concern himself with the... | |
| Charles Bray - 1871 - 386 Seiten
...species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion." — (" Descent of Man," part 2, p. 396.) " If we cannot believe in the relations which He has established... | |
| Charles Bray - 1871 - 398 Seiten
...species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion."—(" Descent of Man," part 2, p. 396.) " If we cannot believe in the relations which He has established... | |
| John Fordyce - 1883 - 490 Seiten
...species and the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion, whether or not we are able to believe that every slight variation of structure, etc., have all been... | |
| Henry Coke - 1883 - 328 Seiten
...species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion," &c.2 True, such a view might not be incompatible with the opinion that all the phenomena of Nature... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 Seiten
...species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion, whether or not we are able to believe that every slight variation of structure — the union of each... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1886 - 898 Seiten
...life, and yet acquiesce unmurmuringly, or even joyously, in the process of human generation which — classic passages of Jeremy Taylor, of Sterne, of Schiller,...how to employ the language of science and of reason. And here, I am convinced, is one cause, and that not the least, of the irreligiousness of the new democracy.... | |
| 1886 - 892 Seiten
...i886. GEORGE BORROW. unmurmuringly, or even joyously, in the process of human generation which — classic passages of Jeremy Taylor, of Sterne, of Schiller,...how to employ the language of science and of reason. And here, I am convinced, is one cause, and that not the least, of the irreligiousness df the new democracy.... | |
| 1886 - 856 Seiten
...all too plainly — exhibits a still more ignominious starting-point for ourselves? Surely Mr. Darwio is well warranted when he contends, "It is not more...how to employ the language of science and of reason. And here, I am convinced, is one cause, and that not the least, of the irreligiousness of the new democracy.... | |
| Postal Microscopical Society - 1886 - 358 Seiten
...individual through the law of ordinary reproduction. The birth of the species and of the individual are equally part of the grand sequence of events which...chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion." Noble, earnest, wise words such as these were " blasphemy," and they who so miscalled them preferred,... | |
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