 | Charles Darwin - 1882 - 492 pages
...Complication. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...sense of mankind declared the doctrine false ; but the oU\ saying of Vux pojiuli, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trosted in science. Reason... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 494 pages
...Complication. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd iu the highest degree. When it was first feaid that the sun stood still and the world turned round,... | |
 | 1885 - 420 pages
...Chas. Darwin: " 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. Yet reason tells me that, if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to... | |
 | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - 1885 - 430 pages
...Chas. Darwin : " 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. Yet reason tells me that, if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex ej-6 to... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1885 - 342 pages
...own argument. " 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 * Origin of Species, p. 189. spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by Natural... | |
 | Januarius De Concilio - 1889 - 276 pages
...suppose,' he says, 'that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to difierent distances, for admitting different amounts of light,...and for the correction of spherical and chromatic ab'-ro. urns, could have been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1902 - 472 pages
...complication. — To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...could have been formed by natural selection, seems, 1 freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations... | |
 | Thomas Hunt Morgan - 1903 - 496 pages
...follows : — " To suppose 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." The following sketch that Darwin gives to show how he imagined the vertebrate eye to have been formed... | |
 | Dennis Hird - 1903 - 260 pages
...the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correcting of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Still, this could hardly be considered more wonderful than a first-rate printing press. No man could... | |
 | Dennis Hird - 1903 - 256 pages
...himself says : " 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,... | |
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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,... 
