The teleological and the mechanical views of nature are not, necessarily, mutually exclusive. On the contrary, the more purely a mechanist the speculator is, the more firmly does he assume a primordial molecular arrangement of which all the phenomena... Reconciliation of Science and Religion - Page 110by Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 403 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 pages
...are ' in no sense appurtenances ' of this great doctrine, and must be ' got rid of ; for, indeed, ' the more purely a mechanist the speculator is,' the...arrangement of which all the phenomena of the universe are consequences.' This corresponds to Paley's ' trains of mechanical dispositions fixed beforehand by... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1870 - 328 pages
...article in " The Academy," Oct. 9th, 1869 — takes a similar view. He says, "The teleological and the mechanical views of nature are not, necessarily, mutually...arrangement, of which all the phenomena of the universe are consequences; and the more completely is he thereby at the mercy of the teleologist, who can always... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1870 - 780 pages
...this appetite ; no matter how high they go, they do not outthe speculator ie, the more firmly doce he assume a primordial molecular arrangement, of which all the phenomena of the universe are consequences; and the more completely is he thereby at the mercy of the teleologUt, who can always... | |
| St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 324 pages
...but is actually based upon the fundamental proposition of evolution." ..." The teleological and the mechanical views of Nature are not necessarily mutually...universe are the consequences ; and the more completely thereby is he at the mercy of the teleologist, who can always defy him to disprove that this primordial... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1871 - 328 pages
...article in " The Academy," Oct. 9th, 1869 — takes a similar view. He says, "The Ideological and the mechanical views of nature are not, necessarily, mutually...arrangement, of which all the phenomena of the universe are consequences; and the more completely is he thereby at the mercy of the Ideologist, who can always... | |
| St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 388 pages
....... "The teleological and the mechanical views of nature are not necessarily mutually exclusive ; 011 the contrary, the more purely a mechanist the speculator...universe are the consequences ; and the more completely thereby is he at the mercy of the teleologist, who can always defy him to disprove that this primordial... | |
| John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 578 pages
...Evolution, but is actually based upon the fundamental proposition of Evolution." " The teleological and the mechanical views of Nature are not necessarily mutually...molecular arrangement, of which all the phenomena in the universe are the consequences; and the more completely thereby is he at the mercy of the teleologist,... | |
| B. F. Cocker - 1875 - 436 pages
...but is actually based upon the fundamental proposition of evolution. . . . The teleological and the mechanical views of nature are not necessarily mutually...universe are the consequences ; and the more completely thereby is he at the mercy of the teleologist, who can always defy him to disprove that this primordial... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1894 - 548 pages
...almost classical. Dr. Huxley says, ' The more purely a mechanist the speculator is, the more firmly must he assume a primordial molecular arrangement of which all the phenomena of the universe are the consequence.' 1 This famous sentence, while it leaves open the question of a primordial creation, yet... | |
| Robert Flint - 1877 - 452 pages
...which it at present fulfils ; but he admits that the most thoroughgoing evolutionist must at least assume " a primordial molecular arrangement, of which...phenomena of the universe are the consequences," and "is thereby at the mercy of the theologist, who can always defy him to disprove that this 1 Lay Sermons,... | |
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