Christianity and EvolutionHodder and Stoughton, 1894 - 232 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action adaptation algæ animals anthropomorphism assumed atoms become believe causation character chemical chemical elements chemistry Christ Christian Colour of Animals complex conception consciousness cosmic process Crown 8vo Darwin definite deny Divine earth EDITION efficient causes elements emotions EPISTLE ethical ideal evolved explain fact feeling fittest force Herbert Spencer homogeneous human hypothesis idea intelligence Karl Pearson laws living look manifested MARCUS DODS matter means mechanical mind modify molecules moral ideal natural selection nebula nebular hypothesis nebular theory object organic evolution organic modification origin Origin of Species phenomena physical plants possible present primitive nebulosity principle Professor Huxley purpose question rational realised recognise relation religion result revelation Romanes scientific self-consciousness simply solar system speak special creation species Spencer spiritual stage struggle for existence survival teleology theology things thought tion trace unity universe variation
Popular passages
Page 45 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 40 - Mendeleeff, which states that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic weights.
Page 57 - If they cannot learn such causes from external sources, they are compelled to turn to considering themselves, and reflecting what end would have induced them personally to bring about the given event, and thus they necessarily judge other natures by their own. Further, as they find in themselves and outside themselves many means which assist them not a little in their search for what is useful, for instance, eyes for seeing, teeth for chewing, herbs and animals for yielding food, the sun for giving...
Page 196 - All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 100 - Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life.
Page 226 - And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.
Page 15 - Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.
Page 2 - Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that there is a wider Teleology which is not touched by the doctrine of Evolution, but is actually based upon the fundamental proposition of Evolution. That proposition is, that the whole world, living and not living, is the result of the mutual interaction according to definite laws of the forces possessed by the molecules, of which the primitive nebulosity of the universe was composed.
Page 180 - As l have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
Page 98 - That which we were looking for, and could not find, was a hypothesis respecting the origin of known organic forms, which assumed the operation of no causes but such as could be proved to be actually at work.