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... origin are very apt to be but slowly apprehended , the opposition to the Newtonian theory was not silenced till 1759 , when Clairaut and Lalande , by calculating the retardation of Halley's comet , furnished such crucial proof as could ...
... origin are very apt to be but slowly apprehended , the opposition to the Newtonian theory was not silenced till 1759 , when Clairaut and Lalande , by calculating the retardation of Halley's comet , furnished such crucial proof as could ...
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... origin of any one particular species through natural selection , because we can never be sure that we have taken due notice of all the innumerable concrete cir- cumstances involved in such an event . The theory , therefore , cannot be ...
... origin of any one particular species through natural selection , because we can never be sure that we have taken due notice of all the innumerable concrete cir- cumstances involved in such an event . The theory , therefore , cannot be ...
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... origin of all the various forms of life through the operation of natural selection alone , is a gross misrepresentation . Mr. Darwin has never urged his hypothesis in this limited shape . The essential theorems of Darwinism are , first ...
... origin of all the various forms of life through the operation of natural selection alone , is a gross misrepresentation . Mr. Darwin has never urged his hypothesis in this limited shape . The essential theorems of Darwinism are , first ...
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... origin all mental activity was a kind of reflex action . Nay , one might as well say that evolutionists consider a man indis- tinguishable from a cuttle - fish , since in their root and origin the vertebrate and molluscan types have ...
... origin all mental activity was a kind of reflex action . Nay , one might as well say that evolutionists consider a man indis- tinguishable from a cuttle - fish , since in their root and origin the vertebrate and molluscan types have ...
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... origin of mankind . For when intelligence has increased pari passu with physical advantages up to a certain point , the variations in intelligence begin to become more valuable than any variations in physical constitution , and ...
... origin of mankind . For when intelligence has increased pari passu with physical advantages up to a certain point , the variations in intelligence begin to become more valuable than any variations in physical constitution , and ...
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