The Reign of LawG. Routledge & sons, 1873 - 462 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
abstract action Adam Smith adapted adjustment animal appear applied arise beauty body colour combination conceive conception connexion contrivance Correlation of Growth corresponding Creation curious Darwin definite difficulty direction doctrine effect equally example exert existence external faculties feathers flight flying Force of Gravity function G. H. Lewes Gravitation Green Woodpecker human Humming Birds idea infinite instincts invariable involves J. S. Mill kind knowledge labour language Laws of Kepler less material Matter means mechanical ment mental Metaphysics methods Mill motion motives natural Forces Natural Law Natural Selection Necessitarian necessity nectary never observed Order operation Order of facts organs Origin of Species ornament pheno phenomena of Mind Philosophy principle produce purpose question reason recognise Reign of Law relation result Science seen sense Species stroke structure Supernatural theory theory of flight things thought tion true truth variety velocity whilst whole wing wonderful word
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Página 30 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Página 104 - The electric organs of fishes offer another case of special difficulty; for it is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced.
Página 265 - Thus, whatever system of organs be studied, the comparison of their modifications in the ape series leads to one and the same result — that the structural differences which separate man from the gorilla and the chimpanzee are not so great as those which separate the gorilla from the lower apes.
Página 219 - His theory seems to be far better than a mere theory — to be an established scientific truth — in so far as it accounts, in part at least, for the success and establishment and spread of new forms when they have arisen.
Página 128 - The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Página 72 - All bodies attract each other directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance.
Página 334 - During that period," wrote the Duke of Argyll of the nineteenth century, "two great discoveries have been made in the Science of Government : the one is the immense advantage of abolishing restrictions upon trade ; the other is the absolute necessity of imposing restrictions on labour.
Página 348 - The mill-owners collected, as apprentices, boys and girls, youths and men, and women, of all ages. In very many cases no provision adequate, or even decent, was provided for their accommodation. The hours of labor were excessive. The ceaseless and untiring agency of machines kept no reckoning of the exhaustion of human nerves. The factory system had not been many years in operation when its effects were seen. A whole generation were growing up under conditions of physical degeneracy, of mental ignorance,...
Página 167 - I never saw any other bird where the force of its wings appeared (as in a butterfly) so powerful in proportion to the weight of its body. When hovering by a flower, its tail is constantly expanded and shut like a fan, the body being kept in a nearly vertical position.
Página 129 - Ser Federigo thought not of the chase; The tender vision of her lovely face, I will not say he seems to see, he sees...