 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
 | Mi Gyung Kim - 2008 - 634 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.43 A history of rhetorical reasoning underlies Darwin's argument. In order to establish the... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 456 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... | |
 | Peter Dear - 2008 - 256 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.11 The geologist Adam Sedgwick disliked Darwin's theory on a number of grounds, but a central... | |
 | Robert G. B. Reid - 2009 - 536 strani
...It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity. . . . Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical...expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity. . . . With a little familiarity such superficial objections will be forgotten.11 Alas, in every subsequent... | |
 | Nathaniel C. Comfort - 2007 - 196 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... | |
 | Boaventura de Sousa Santos - 2007 - 472 strani
...legitimate metaphorically speaking, and false if literally taken. But he says that "every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical...expressions: and they are almost necessary for brevity." Aristotle Allege that the action performed is not harmful to the opponent (Rhetoric, Book III, chapter... | |
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