Paley's Natural Theology: With Illustrative Notes, المجلد 3C. Knight, 1839 |
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الصفحة vii - Puto fore ut cum legeris, mirere nos id locutos esse inter nos, quod numquam locuti sumus. Sed nosti morem dialogorum.
الصفحة 67 - One in their nature, which are two in ours; And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.
الصفحة 68 - ... Faculty of an intellectual Being. For my own part, I look upon it as upon the Principle of Gravitation in Bodies, which is not to be explained by any known Qualities inherent in the Bodies themselves, nor from any Laws of Mechanism, but, according to the best Notions of the greatest Philosophers, is an immediate Impression from the first Mover, and the Divine Energy acting in the Creatures.
الصفحة 175 - There are some brutes that seem to have as much knowledge and reason as some that are called men ; and the animal and vegetable kingdoms are so nearly joined that if you will take the lowest of one, and the highest of the other, there will...
الصفحة 124 - ... of itself to open the latch of a door ; and I knew a Pony in the stable here, that used both to open the latch of the stable, and raise the lid of the cornchest — things...
الصفحة 28 - It acts without teaching, either from others, that is, instruction, or from the animal itself, that is, experience. This is generally given as the definition or description of Instinct. But we have added another peculiarity, which seems also a necessary part of the description — it acts without knowledge of consequences — it acts blindly, and accomplishes a purpose of which the animal is ignorant.
الصفحة 16 - ... a glimmering of reason ; and confining ourselves to what are purely instinctive, as the bee forming a hexagon without knowing what it is, or why she forms it ; my proof of this, not being reason, but something else, and something not only differing from reason in degree but in kind, is from a comparison of the facts — an examination of the phenomena in each case — in a word, from induction.
الصفحة 132 - America, where the wild horse is gregarious, there are herds of five or six hundred, which, being ill-prepared for fighting, or indeed for any resistance, and knowing that their safety is in flight, when they sleep, appoint one in rotation who acts as sentinel, while the rest are asleep. If a man approaches, the sentinel walks towards him as if to reconnoitre or see whether he may be deterred from coming near ; if the man continues, he neighs aloud and in a peculiar tone, which rouses the herd, and...
الصفحة 65 - Insects, can be the effect of nothing else than the Wisdom and Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more ably by his Will to move the Bodies within his boundless, uniform Sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the Parts of the Universe, than we are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies.