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- It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental…
- About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that…
- I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of…
- That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful…
- There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
- Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look with confidence to…
- I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe…
- On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
- There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,…
- As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so…
- When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed…
- ...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one…
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