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... in pursuing the study of nature . I remain , MY DEAR SIR HENRY , Ever faithfully yours , 7 , NORTH BANK , REGENT'S PARK , December 8 , 1870 . ST . GEORGE MIVART . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . The problem of the.
... in pursuing the study of nature . I remain , MY DEAR SIR HENRY , Ever faithfully yours , 7 , NORTH BANK , REGENT'S PARK , December 8 , 1870 . ST . GEORGE MIVART . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . The problem of the.
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... CHAPTER II . THE INCOMPETENCY OF " NATURAL SELECTION " TO ACCOUNT FOR THE INCIPIENT STAGES OF USEFUL STRUCTURES . Mr. Darwin supposes that Natural Selection acts by slight variations-- These must be useful at once . - Difficulties as to ...
... CHAPTER II . THE INCOMPETENCY OF " NATURAL SELECTION " TO ACCOUNT FOR THE INCIPIENT STAGES OF USEFUL STRUCTURES . Mr. Darwin supposes that Natural Selection acts by slight variations-- These must be useful at once . - Difficulties as to ...
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... CHAPTER III . THE CO - EXISTENCE OF CLOSELY SIMILAR STRUCTURES OF DIVERSE ORIGIN . Chances against concordant variations - Examples of discordant ones.— Concordant variations not unlikely on a non - Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis ...
... CHAPTER III . THE CO - EXISTENCE OF CLOSELY SIMILAR STRUCTURES OF DIVERSE ORIGIN . Chances against concordant variations - Examples of discordant ones.— Concordant variations not unlikely on a non - Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis ...
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... CHAPTER VI . SPECIES AND TIME . Two relations of species to time . -No evidence of past existence of minutely graduated intermediate forms when such might be expected a priori . Bats , Pterodactyles , Dinosauria , and Birds ...
... CHAPTER VI . SPECIES AND TIME . Two relations of species to time . -No evidence of past existence of minutely graduated intermediate forms when such might be expected a priori . Bats , Pterodactyles , Dinosauria , and Birds ...
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الصفحة 282 - Thus the consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested to us through all phenomena, has been growing ever clearer ; and must eventually be freed from its imperfections. The certainty that on the one hand such a Power exists, while on the other hand its nature transcends intuition and is beyond imagination, is the certainty towards which intelligence has from the first been progressing.