 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 590 pages
...Pentateuchal term of creation,* by which I really meant " appeared " by some wholly unknown process. It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin...; one might as well think of the origin of matter. C. Darwin to JD Hooker. Down, Friday night [April 17, 1863]. MY DEAR HOOKER, — I have heard from... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 572 pages
...Pentateuchal term of creation,* by which I really meant " appeared " by some wholly unknown process. It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin...; one might as well think of the origin of matter. C. Darwin to JD Hooker. Down, Friday night [April 17, 1863]. MY DEAR HOOKER,—I have heard from Oliver... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1928 - 838 pages
...used the Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant 'appeared' by some unknown process. It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin...one might as well think of the origin of matter." To be sure, Darwin sometimes personified Nature in a quasi-pantheistic way by the use of a capital... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - 436 pages
...involving a break in the continuity of Nature. Mr. Darwin writes :— " It is mere rubbish thinking of the origin of life; one might as well think of the origin of matter." (Life, vol. iii, p. 18). But the individuality and periodicity of the atoms, on which the bios theory... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - 438 pages
...involving a break in the continuity of Nature. Mr. Darwin writes : — " It is mere rubbish thinking of the origin of life; one might as well think of the origin of matter." (Life, vol. iii, p. 18). But the individuality and periodicity of the atoms, on which the bios theory... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - 438 pages
...involving a break in the continuity of Nature. Mr. Darwin writes : — " It is mere rubbish thinking of the origin of life; one might as well think of the origin of matter." (Life, vol. iii, p. 18). But the individuality and periodicity of the atoms, on which the bios theory... | |
 | New York Microscopical Society - 1889 - 310 pages
...said : " It will be some time before we see ' slime, protoplasm, &c.,' generating a new animal. * * * It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin...one might as well think of the origin of matter." ubsequently, when Dr. Bastian put forth his too positive statements as to the results of his experiments,... | |
 | 1889 - 514 pages
...Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant ' appeared ' by some wholly unknown process. It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin...-one might as well think of the origin of matter." In February, 1867, writing to the same (vol. ii. p. 244), he expresses strong dissent from a position... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1892 - 372 pages
...Pentateuchal term of creation, J by which I really meant ' appeared ' by some wholly unknown process. It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin...one might as well think of the origin of matter." The Athenseum continued to be a scientific battle-ground. On April 4, 1863, Falconer wrote a severe... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1894 - 392 pages
...troubles himself about " such insoluble questions : " and as to that of the organic, he (p. 18) opines : " It is mere rubbish thinking at present of the origin...one might as well think of the origin of matter." Mr. Darwin did, however, in the end, think of the origin of life. From a note (iii. 18) we find him... | |
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It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin of life ; one might as well think of the origin of matter. 
