Essays on DarwinismLongmans, Green, 1871 - 184 páginas |
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... moral and good , according to which , as some will tell you , the giraffe lengthened its neck by a series of stretch- ings , and the elephant acquired a trunk by continually pulling its own nose . A disinterested advocate will perhaps ...
... moral and good , according to which , as some will tell you , the giraffe lengthened its neck by a series of stretch- ings , and the elephant acquired a trunk by continually pulling its own nose . A disinterested advocate will perhaps ...
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... its supe- riority . So ran the Pagan legend that Providence had compacted man's moral nature out of particles taken from each of the lower animals , giving him the wisdom of the serpent and the fiery courage of the lion1 B 2.
... its supe- riority . So ran the Pagan legend that Providence had compacted man's moral nature out of particles taken from each of the lower animals , giving him the wisdom of the serpent and the fiery courage of the lion1 B 2.
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... morally the grandest part of the whole theory , an even sublime explanation , as far as it goes , of that small fraction which we see in terrestrial life of the great and manifold works of God . We noted above that it is to death , a ...
... morally the grandest part of the whole theory , an even sublime explanation , as far as it goes , of that small fraction which we see in terrestrial life of the great and manifold works of God . We noted above that it is to death , a ...
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... moral sense , to a knowledge of God ? In such an origin there is for man no degradation , since the lowliness of his parentage has ever been traced back to the dust of the ground ; and the lowest form of life is higher in our ...
... moral sense , to a knowledge of God ? In such an origin there is for man no degradation , since the lowliness of his parentage has ever been traced back to the dust of the ground ; and the lowest form of life is higher in our ...
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... morally impossible , but positively untruthful , for it declares the physical means employed in the production of the flood to be the fountains of the great deep and the rain from heaven— means entirely sufficient to produce a partial ...
... morally impossible , but positively untruthful , for it declares the physical means employed in the production of the flood to be the fountains of the great deep and the rain from heaven— means entirely sufficient to produce a partial ...
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