The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen37D. Appleton, 1890 |
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... natural selection which first brought this truth home to us ; but Sir Charles Lyell had in 1830 shown how enormous effects are wrought by the cumulative action of slight and unob- trusive causes , and this had much to do with turning ...
... natural selection which first brought this truth home to us ; but Sir Charles Lyell had in 1830 shown how enormous effects are wrought by the cumulative action of slight and unob- trusive causes , and this had much to do with turning ...
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... natural selection should have occurred independently and in precisely the same form to two work- ing naturalists ; that these naturalists should have been countrymen ; that they should have agreed to publish their theory on the same day ...
... natural selection should have occurred independently and in precisely the same form to two work- ing naturalists ; that these naturalists should have been countrymen ; that they should have agreed to publish their theory on the same day ...
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... natural selection has been the most important , but not the exclusive , means of modification . " It should be especially noted , adds Mr. Wal- * Page 9 . lace , that all which is here claimed is now 76 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY .
... natural selection has been the most important , but not the exclusive , means of modification . " It should be especially noted , adds Mr. Wal- * Page 9 . lace , that all which is here claimed is now 76 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY .
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... natural selection , and what , therefore , the Darwinian theory really is : The theory of natural selection rests on two main classes of facts , which apply to all organized beings without exception , and which thus take rank as ...
... natural selection , and what , therefore , the Darwinian theory really is : The theory of natural selection rests on two main classes of facts , which apply to all organized beings without exception , and which thus take rank as ...
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... natural selection is an element in that evolution of living forms of which the evidence appears to be irresistible . Natural selection is a vera causa ; the question is , What is the extent of its action ? how much can it do ? Darwin ...
... natural selection is an element in that evolution of living forms of which the evidence appears to be irresistible . Natural selection is a vera causa ; the question is , What is the extent of its action ? how much can it do ? Darwin ...
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Página 642 - Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained...
Página 265 - The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
Página 648 - Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh'? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Página 492 - ... the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation : and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever : and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Página 76 - I am fully convinced that species are not immutable ; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.
Página 635 - But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark. And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Página 507 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
Página 591 - We have established, we think, beyond cavil, that there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose. It may not be easy to draw the line in all cases, so as to decide what is a public purpose in this sense, and what is not.
Página 492 - And if thy hand cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed, rather than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
Página 246 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.