 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1918 - 390 pages
...single great problem, beginning with the origin of the stars in the nebulae, and culminating in these difficult and complex sciences that endeavor to account,...of life, but for the laws which control a society of human beings." Excerpts, somewhat longer than the very numerous ones occurring in the body of the... | |
 | Stephen G. Brush - 1996 - 150 pages
...study of evolution as that of a single giant problem, beginning with the origin of the stars in the nebulae and culminating in those difficult and complex...which control a society composed of human beings. (Hale 1908: 3) But the term "evolution" in astronomy is not limited to the specifically Darwinian process... | |
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We are now in a position to regard the study of evolution as that of a single great problem, beginning with the origin of the stars in the nebulae and culminating in those difficult and complex sciences that endeavor to account, not merely for the phenomena... 