 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1871 - 496 pages
...one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work. I may be permitted to say, as some excuse, that I had two distinct objects in view : firstly,...Natural Selection had been the chief agent of change, though largely aided by the inherited effects of habit, and slightly by the direct action of the surrounding... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 432 pages
...one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work. I may be permitted to say, as some excuse, that I had two distinct objects in view, firstly,...natural selection had been the chief agent of change, though largely *1 ' The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. ii. pp. 280, 282.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 468 pages
...I may be permitted to say as some excuse, that I had two distinct objects in view, firstly, to shew that species had not been separately created, and...natural selection had been. the chief agent of change, though largely aided by the 80 ' The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. ii.... | |
 | William Penman Lyon - 1872 - 202 pages
...belief of man himself as to his origin. Darwin. " In my work," my Lord, " on ' THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES,' I had two distinct objects in view : firstly, to show...Natural Selection had been the chief agent of change ;" . . . and if, in that work, " I have erred in giving to Natural Selection great powers, which I... | |
 | William Penman Lyon - 1872 - 168 pages
...belief of man himself as to his origin. Darwin. " In my work," my Lord, " on ' THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES,' I had two distinct objects in view : firstly, to show...Natural Selection had been the chief agent of change ; " . . . and if, in that work, " I have erred in giving to Natural Selection great powers, which I... | |
 | Pius Melia - 1872 - 124 pages
...Grattan he says, ' man has emerged from a state of barbarism within a comparatively recent period.' 1 ' I had two distinct objects in view, firstly to show...separately created, and secondly that natural selection has been the chief agent of change. 2 After having said that ' the spiritual power cannot be compared... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 1872 - 834 pages
...the influence of Natural Selection, asserted that his main objects in the 'Origin of Species' were 'firstly, to show that species had not been separately...Natural Selection had been the chief agent of change?, though largely aided by the inherited effects of habit, and slightly by the direct action of the surrounding... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 1872 - 862 pages
...the influence of Natural Selection, asserted that his main objects in the ' Origin of Species' were 'firstly, to show that species had not been separately...that Natural Selection had been the chief agent of changes, though largely aided by the inherited effects of habit, and slightly by the direct action... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 576 pages
...my work. I may be permitted to say as some excuse, that I had two distinct objects in view, partly to show that species had not been separately created,...secondly, that natural selection had been the chief agent in the change, though largely aided by the inherited effects of habit, and slightly by the direct action... | |
 | Education, Member of the New Zealand Bar - 1873 - 328 pages
...been pointed out in his " Origin of Species," he says, " I may be perL mitted to say, as some excuse, that I had two distinct objects in view : firstly,...natural selection had been the chief agent of change, though largely aided by the inherited effects of habit, and slightly by the direct action of the surrounding... | |
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I may be permitted to say, as some excuse, that I had two distinct objects in view : firstly, to show that species had not been separately created ; and, secondly, that natural selection had been the chief agent of change, though largely aided by the... 
