 The old argument from design in Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue that for instance the beautiful hinge of a bivalve shell must...  New Englander and Yale Review - Page 2061888Full view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress. " Although I did not think much about the existence...in Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 420 pages
...over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress. "Although I did not think much about the existence...in Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 pages
...over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress. " Although I did not think much about the existence...in Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress. " Although I did not think much about the existence...in Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer... | |
 | 1888 - 898 pages
...Gencrelle Morphologic," i, p. 160. J Vol. i, p. 19, En-lish translation. * " Life and Letters," i, p. 41. The old argument from design in Nature as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1892 - 372 pages
...over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress. " Although I did not think much about the existence...in Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer... | |
 | 1892 - 592 pages
...remark that Mr. Darwin's own mind went through considerable changes on this subject. At first he said, "The old argument from design in nature as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails now that the law of natural selection has been discovered."» But later... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1894 - 392 pages
...is not to be mistaken ; and, again, there can be no more express statement than (p. 309) this other: "The old argument from design in Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered — there seems... | |
 | Friedrich Paulsen - 1895 - 478 pages
...same experience. He lost his religion when he lost his confidence in Paley's evidences. He says : " The old argument from design in Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer... | |
 | 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
...wrote " The Origin of Species." ' Yet, while recording this suggestive statement, he declares that ' the old argument from design in Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed BO conclusive, fails, now that the law of Natural Selection has been discovered. We can no longer argne... | |
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