 To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection,...  Famous Reviews - Page 272edited by - 1914 - 498 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1861 - 716 pages
...explain the development of the eye by natural selection. He says : To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus...confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. — P. 16Y. Tet he screws Up his courage to face the difficulty. Here ia e whole T>roeess : the whole process... | |
 | 1860 - 600 pages
...he takes the eye, of which he writes : "To suppose that the eye with all its illimitable contrivance for adjusting the focus to different distances, for...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me that if numerous grailntions from a perfect and complex eye, to one very imperfect... | |
 | 1860 - 966 pages
...of there being fostililtroua rocks far below the Silurian, in a metamorphic condition. eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus...and for the correction of spherical and chromatic observation, could have been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest... | |
 | 1860 - 890 pages
...specimen of bold assumption; but what follows far surpasses it : — " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus...admitting different amounts of light, and for the correcting of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admiting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...create perfect eyes as the Almighty himself has. Inasmuch as God has created eyes with all their " inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to...correction of spherical and chromatic aberration," he holds there is no difficulty in believing natural selection can do it also; and by that he means... | |
 | 1863 - 718 pages
...every difficulty and brings about every result. Mr. Darwin says : To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus...and for the correction of spherical and chromatic iberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest... | |
 | Edward Garbett - 1864 - 592 pages
...as to be at first sight incredible ;* while another school only * "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus...aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, jeems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that of numerous... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admiting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect... | |
 | sir Henry Wentworth Acland (1st bart.) - 1865 - 130 pages
...of the Eye not by Chance but by Natural Selection. " To suppose," he says, " that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect... | |
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