If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years ; there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the... The Story of the Earth and Man - Seite 252von Sir John William Dawson - 1873 - 403 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 510 Seiten
...feeble if we fail to realize in thought, the evolution of the most complex organism out of the simplest. If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes...is built, that they find difficulty in forming it. Habitually looking at things rather in their statical than in their dynamical aspects, they never realize... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 506 Seiten
...feeble if we fail to realize in thought, the evolution of the most complex organism out of the simplest. If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes...is built, that they find difficulty in forming it. Habitually looking at things rather in their statical than in their dynamical aspects, they never realize... | |
| Charles Staniland Wake - 1868 - 382 Seiten
...protoplast. Nothing can be more explicit than the following words, used by Mr. Herbert Spencer:—" If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes...millions of years, give origin to the human race."* According to this view, man is simply the final product of the activity of the external forces which... | |
| Noah Porter - 1869 - 752 Seiten
...organism out of the simplest. If a singlo cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes л man in tho space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty...understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell muy in the course of untold millions of yeare, givo origin, to tho human race." — Principles of Biology,... | |
| sir William Withey Gull (1st bart.) - 1870 - 60 Seiten
...lowest organisms to have the same homogeneous beginnings ; and if, as a modern physiologist* says, " a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes...there can surely be no difficulty in understanding * Herbert Spencer, " Principles of Biology," vol. i. p. 350. how, under appropriate conditions, a cell... | |
| Charles Robert Bree - 1872 - 518 Seiten
...will fall in with such a conclusion. Listen to the style of argument used in the ' Principles ' : — 'If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes...millions of years, give origin to the human race.' Plausible and apparently true as is this illustration, it requires no great amount of reflection to... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 516 Seiten
...feeble if we fail to realize in thought, tie evolution of the most complex organism out of the simplest. If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes...understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell mar, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race. It is true that many... | |
| Rev. John Reid - 1875 - 406 Seiten
...of untaught mind to say that God made the first man. Herbert Spencer thus speaks : "Surely there can be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate...millions of years, give origin to the human race."* Certainly there is no nonsense that is so absurd as the so-called wisdom of wise men. To get rid of... | |
| Adolf Bastian - 1875 - 386 Seiten
...geschürzten Räthselknotens; aus der Peripherie zum Centrnm, gelangt. lf a single cell, nnder appropiate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years,...surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropiate conditions, a cell may, in the conrsc of nntold millions of years, give origin to the human... | |
| Adolf Bastian - 1875 - 380 Seiten
...the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropiate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race, so sagt „one of the deepest thinkers of the day" (nach Hooker), Herbert Spencer, der philosophische... | |
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