 | 1861 - 716 pages
...selection. He says : To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. — P. 16Y. Tet he screws Up his courage to face the difficulty. Here ia e whole T>roeess... | |
 | 1860 - 600 pages
...which he writes : "To suppose that the eye with all its illimitable contrivance for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me that if numerous grailntions from a perfect and complex eye, to... | |
 | 1860 - 966 pages
...Silurian, in a metamorphic condition. eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...and for the correction of spherical and chromatic observation, could have been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest... | |
 | 1860 - 890 pages
...surpasses it : — " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correcting of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admiting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...has. Inasmuch as God has created eyes with all their " inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...correction of spherical and chromatic aberration," he holds there is no difficulty in believing natural selection can do it also; and by that he means... | |
 | 1863 - 718 pages
...Darwin says : To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...and for the correction of spherical and chromatic iberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admiting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to... | |
 | Edward Garbett - 1864 - 592 pages
...school only * "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, jeems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that of numerous... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1865 - 252 pages
...suppose," says Mr Darwin, " that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. Yet reason tells us that, of numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye, to one very imperfect... | |
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To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection,... 
