 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 542 pages
...distinctly be borne in mind that by Nature, though it is difficult to avoid personifying it, he meant "only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events. He found it difficult to admit of any personality or designer... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 pages
...meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions ; and they are almost necessary for brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the...laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial objections will be forgotten. We shall best understand the... | |
 | 1867 - 510 pages
...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...laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." — (P. 91-2.) Now, I think in the face of this it behoves every one who wishes to speak of natural... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 424 pages
...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...Nature only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws, the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 406 pages
...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...Nature only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws, the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial... | |
 | Robert Willis - 1870 - 704 pages
...things.' He speaks of it again as ' an Active power or Deity ; ' and by ' Nature,' he says, ' I mean the aggregate action and product of many natural laws...Laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us.' — Darwin, Origin of Species, 4th Ed. p. 92. To conclude : ' Pantheistic Immaneney properly considered,'... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 578 pages
...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...aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by-laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." So far this is clear enough, and we learn that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 pages
...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...aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by lawa the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial objections... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1873 - 662 pages
...invokes not His aid in the processes of nature ; nor yet does he deify nature, but says this of her : " It is difficult to avoid personifying the word nature...nature, only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." It is obvious that the effect of the... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1873 - 626 pages
...invokes not His aid in the processes of nature ; nor yet does he deify nature, but says this of her : "It is difficult to avoid personifying the word nature...nature, only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." It is obvious that the effect of the... | |
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So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us. 
