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... evolution theory may be true , there is a host of muscular Christians and red - cross knights , both in and out of the Established Church , ready to do battle with Huxley or Spencer or any other champion of the evolution cause . Dr ...
... evolution theory may be true , there is a host of muscular Christians and red - cross knights , both in and out of the Established Church , ready to do battle with Huxley or Spencer or any other champion of the evolution cause . Dr ...
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... Darwin's hypo- thesis of evolution , which he seems to regard as the greatest discovery ever made by man , for- getting that it is not an immutable law , but only an unverified theory . It is amusing to find Materialism . 25.
... Darwin's hypo- thesis of evolution , which he seems to regard as the greatest discovery ever made by man , for- getting that it is not an immutable law , but only an unverified theory . It is amusing to find Materialism . 25.
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... evolution requires not only thousands , but billions upon billions of years for the development of a new species . This is dreaming , not sober reasoning , and is best suited for a poem , or a novel like Bulwer Lytton's clever " Coming ...
... evolution requires not only thousands , but billions upon billions of years for the development of a new species . This is dreaming , not sober reasoning , and is best suited for a poem , or a novel like Bulwer Lytton's clever " Coming ...
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... evolution step by step through inferior classes of bees . There are high authorities , however , who think that the marvellous ingenuity of the hive - bee was conferred directly , not indirectly , by the hand of the Creator . It would ...
... evolution step by step through inferior classes of bees . There are high authorities , however , who think that the marvellous ingenuity of the hive - bee was conferred directly , not indirectly , by the hand of the Creator . It would ...
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... evolution hypothesis , Professor Tyndall's materialistic views are given still more strongly when he comes to speak of the conservation of energy . He asserts that vital as well as physical phenomena " are brought " under the dominion ...
... evolution hypothesis , Professor Tyndall's materialistic views are given still more strongly when he comes to speak of the conservation of energy . He asserts that vital as well as physical phenomena " are brought " under the dominion ...
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Materialism. Orig. Publ. in the Journ. of Psych. Med. with an Appendix James Michell Winn Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 9 - Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods'?
Página 25 - You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity between molecular processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy of life.
Página 39 - organized register of infinitely numerous experiences received during the evolution of life, or rather during the evolution of that series of organisms through which the human organism has been reached.
Página 42 - Can we pause here ? We break a magnet and find two poles in each of its fragments. We continue the process of breaking, but, however small the parts, each carries with it, though enfeebled, the polarity of the whole. And when we can break no longer, we prolong the intellectual vision to the polar molecules. Are we not urged...
Página 25 - ... your dead nitrogen atoms, your dead phosphorus atoms, and all the other atoms, dead as grains of shot, of which the brain is formed. Imagine them separate and sensationless ; observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seea-ble by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any way imagine, how out of that mechanical act, and from these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to rise...
Página 65 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.