... and the result of the same general laws, which have been the groundwork through natural selection of the formation of the most perfectly adapted animals in the world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much we may wish... The Student, and Intellectual Observer - Page 2661869Full view - About this book
| 1902 - 642 pages
...botanist Asa Gray, who was one of the earliest converts to Darwin, still believed that ' variation had been led along ' certain beneficial lines,' like a...along definite and ' useful lines of irrigation.' f The American naturalist Cope invokes a ' growth-force ' which acts independently of ' fitness,' as... | |
| 1888 - 934 pages
...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief that ' variation...' along definite and useful lines of irrigation.' "* Only one other matter remains to be dealt with ; but this, if I mistake not, is a matter of considerable... | |
| 1869 - 844 pages
...monstrous confusion. It is in this sense, perhaps, we are to understand Professor Asa Gray when he says that " variation has been led along certain beneficial...stream "along definite and useful lines of irrigation." Mr. Darwin feels unable to accept the conclusion ; but as he only justifies his position by a faulty... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1877 - 848 pages
...designed. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Prof. Asa Gray in his belief ' that variatim has been led along certain beneficial lines,' like...'along definite and useful lines of irrigation.'" * I could give a number of other quotations to the same general effect from the writings of Mr. Darwin,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1871 - 496 pages
...the simple Christian faith in Divine superintendence. The often-quoted belief of Professor Gray, " that variation has been led along certain beneficial lines, like a stream along definite lines of irrigation," VOL. cxin. — NO. 232. 7 the case of sexual preferences ? All such arrangements,... | |
| Charles Hodge - 1872 - 768 pages
...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief ' that variation...' along definite and useful lines of irrigation.' " J In this paragraph man is declared to be an unintended product of nature. JJ Murphy. 4. Others again,... | |
| George St. Clair - 1873 - 280 pages
...ends.1 Mr Darwin also seems to deny Design, when he says that however much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief " that variation...like a stream " along definite and useful lines of irrigation."2 Professor Haeckel again, Darwin's great disciple in Germany, so disbelieves in design... | |
| Charles Hodge - 1874 - 190 pages
...included, were intentionally and specially guided," adds : " However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief ' that variation...' along definite and useful lines of irrigation.' " l If Mr. Darwin does not agree with Dr. Gray, Dr. Gray does not agree with Mr. Darwin. It is as to... | |
| Charles Hodge - 1874 - 190 pages
...included, were intentionally and specially guided," adds : "However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief 'that variation...led along certain beneficial lines' like a stream f along definite and useful lines of irrigation.' " l If Mr. Darwin does not agree with Dr. Gray, Dr.... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1876 - 544 pages
...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much wo may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief " that " variation...variation was from the beginning of all time preordained, then that plasticity of organisation, which leads to many injurious deviations of structure, as well... | |
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