 On the other hand, the //«probability that these flints acquired their peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis, although it cannot be directly disproved,...  Nature - Page 302edited by - 1872Full view - About this book
 | 1872 - 798 pages
...probable value, derives an irresistible cogency from accumulation. On the other hand, the improbability that these flints acquired their peculiar shape by...And thus what was in the first instance a matter of discussion has now become one of those " self-evident " propositions which claim the unhesitating assent... | |
 | 1872 - 806 pages
...probable value, derives an irresistible cogency from accumulation. On the other hand, the improbability that these flints acquired their peculiar shape by...And thus what was in the first instance a matter of discussion has now become one of those " self-evident " propositions which claim the unhesitating assent... | |
 | 1872 - 740 pages
...probable value, derives an irresistible cogency from accumulation. On the other hand, the improbability that these flints acquired their peculiar shape by...disproved, is felt to be almost inconceivable, except by mind* previously " possessed " by the " dominant idea " of the modern origin of man. And thus what... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 pages
...probable value, derives an irresistible cogency from accumulation. On the other hand, the improbability that these flints acquired their peculiar shape by...found ; until at last this hypothesis, .although it can not be directly disproved, is felt to be almost inconceivable, except by minds previously " possessed"... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1873 - 378 pages
...probable value, derives an irresistible cogency from accumulation. On the other hand, the improbability that these flints acquired their peculiar shape by...And thus, what was in the first instance a matter of discussion has now become one of those ' self-evident' propositions which claim the unhesitating assent... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1873 - 900 pages
...probable value, derives an irresistible cogency from accumulation. On the other hand, the improbability that these flints acquired their' peculiar shape by...And thus what was in the first instance a matter of discussion, has now become one of thoso " self-evident " propositions, which claim the unhesitating... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1873 - 902 pages
...probable value, derives an irresistible cogency from accumulation. On the other hand, the improbability that these flints acquired their peculiar shape by...possessed " by the " dominant idea " of the modern origia of Man. And thus what was in the first instance a matter of discussion, has now become one of... | |
 | John Christopher Draper - 1873 - 372 pages
...probable value, derives an irresistible cogency from accumulation. On the other hand, the improbability that these flints acquired their peculiar shape by...accident, becomes to our minds greater and greater as more of such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis, although it cannot be directly disproved,... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1874 - 774 pages
...Human hands; but no unprejudiced person who has examined them now doubts it The evidence of desiyn, to which, after an examination of one or two such...And thus what was in the first instance a matter of discussion, has now become one of those " self-evident " propositions, which claim the unhesitating... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1878 - 296 pages
...acquired their peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater and greater as more and more of such specimens are found, until at last this hypothesis,...And thus what was in the first instance a matter of discussion, has now become one of those "self-evident" propositions which claim the unhesitating assent... | |
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