 It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity ; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets ? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical...  University of California Publications in History - Stran 2551916Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | University of California, Berkeley - 1916 - 332 strani
...of the theory of natural selection, see his autobiography, My Life (New York, 1905),"!, 361-62. 30 Darwin himself recognised this criticism: "Every one...problems. to be as they are by a process of continuous sipwijnodification through unlimited time. Neither in Lyell's day nor subsequently has this view passed... | |
 | James R. Moore - 1981 - 536 strani
...author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical...expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying Nature; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action... | |
 | Robert Maxwell Young - 1971 - 372 strani
...author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical...expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate... | |
 | Daniel P. Todes - 1989 - 242 strani
...separate Darwin from Malthus. CHAPTER 1 Darwin's Metaphor and His Russian Audience Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions, and they are almost necessary for brevity.1 (Charles Darwin, 1861) By his use of metaphor Darwin appealed to the common knowledge of... | |
 | Alvar Ellegård - 1990 - 400 strani
...author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical...expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate... | |
 | Geert Keil - 1993 - 444 strani
...author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical...expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1998 - 486 strani
...of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets?' A note of irritation creeps in: 'Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity.'20 But Darwin had invented a new concept, and 'every one' did not know how to read it, as... | |
 | Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe - 1997 - 276 strani
...author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical...expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate... | |
 | Michael Ruse - 1999 - 366 strani
...author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical...expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity" (Darwin 1959, p. 165). Although Wallace wanted Darwin to drop the term "natural selection," he was... | |
 | David N. Livingstone - 1997 - 228 strani
...author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary (br brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature; but 1 mean by Nature,... | |
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