 ... nature there is at work a modifying influence of the kind they assign as the cause of these specific differences : an influence which, though slow in its action, does, in time, if the circumstances demand it, produce marked changes — an influence...  The Review of Reviews - Page 400publié par - 1895Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1906 - 308 pages
...it, produce marked changes — an influence which, to all appearance, would produce in the millions of years, and under the great varieties of condition...which geological records imply, any amount of change. " While Spencer did not discern the modifying influence of Natural Selection, which it was reserved... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1907 - 142 pages
...it, produce marked changes — an influence which, to all appearance, would produce in the millions of years, and under the great varieties of condition...which geological records imply, any amount of change. Which, then, is the most rational hypothesis ? — that of special creations, which has neither a fact... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1910 - 496 pages
...it, produce marked changes — an influence which, to all appearance, would produce in the millions of years, and under the great varieties of condition...which geological records imply, any amount of change. Which, then, is the most rational hypothesis ? — that of special creations which has neither a fact... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1924 - 426 pages
...demand it, produce marked changes ; an influence which, to all appearance, would produce in the millions of years, and under the great varieties of condition...which geological records imply, any amount of change." This leaves nothing to be desired. It is Buffon, Dr. Darwin, and Lamarck, well expressed. Those were... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1895 - 684 pages
...demand it, produce marked changes; an influence which, to all appearance, would produce in the millions of years, and under the great varieties of condition...development of plants and animals, did not appear till J859, — that is to say, some seven years later. Yet the passage I have quoted would seem to most... | |
 | 1897 - 988 pages
...demand it, produce marked changes ; an influence which, to all appearance, would produce in the millions of years, and under the great varieties of condition...geological records imply, any amount of change." Now, by most readers at the present day, this passage would •undoubtedly be at once set down as " Darwinian."... | |
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