 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 134von William Samuel Lilly - 1890 - 239 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 232 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." The bearing of the Darwinian doctrine on some important practical questions for society leads to the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 890 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... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 568 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... | |
 | Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) - 1899 - 360 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... | |
 | 1902 - 200 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 pair... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - 1905 - 826 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 pair... | |
 | Noble Smithson - 1911 - 154 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." Thus it appears that Darwin believed in the existence of a personal God and in the immortality of the... | |
 | Alfred Noyes - 1911 - 446 Seiten
...that has ever been recorded. He has spoken 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 " — here he is writing, though as a scientist, yet with the large grasp of the great Greek dramatists,... | |
 | Frank Challice Constable - 1924 - 304 Seiten
...species and of the individual are equally part 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." (Cf . The Descent of Man) . But if man be no more than an evolved living organism we must refer the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1924 - 200 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." 1 Darwin might, indeed, have stated the matter much more strongly. To call into existence a lowly organised... | |
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