 On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with...  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 2051888Full view - About this book
 | Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1894 - 284 pages
...natural selection preserves for the good of any being, have been designed." In still another passage:2 "I am inclined to look at everything as resulting...or bad, left to the working out of what we may call 'chance.1 Not that this notion at all satisfies me." This makes sufficiently clear Darwin's opinions... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 920 pages
...this, I see no necessity in the belief that the eye was expressly designed. On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe,...call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might... | |
 | Rev. Bernard Boedder - 1896 - 516 pages
...Gray, dated November 26, 1860, the great biologist himself inclines to take this view. He writes : " I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from...call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, President of Cornell University - 1902 - 288 pages
...is best indicated in the correspondence with Asa Gray. Writing on May 22, I860, he said: "I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe,...call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me." And again, on June 5, 1861 : " I have I>een led to think more on this subject of late, and grieve... | |
 | Aubrey Lackington Moore - 1905 - 292 pages
...this, I see no necessity in the belief that the eye was expressly designed. On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe,...call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me." f Elsewhere he says of this suggestion : — " I am aware it is not logical with reference to... | |
 | Frank Ballard - 1906 - 632 pages
...uncontrolled by design.' Nor did Darwin ever commit himself to such an absurdity. His own expression is: 'I am inclined to look at everything as resulting...call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me.' * And later we find that, in reply to Dr. Asa Gray's suggestion that he had brought back teleology... | |
 | Vernon Faithfull Storr - 1906 - 316 pages
...difficulties over this question. In a letter to Asa Gray, the American botanist, in 1860, he writes: "I am inclined to look at everything as resulting...left to the working out of what we may call chance." Chance, here, would mean the undesigned interaction of these laws. The laws would be continually crossing... | |
 | James George Roche Forlong - 1906 - 648 pages
...with mice. . . . I see no necessity for the belief that the eye was expressly designed. ... I incline to look at everything as resulting from designed laws,...whether good or bad, left to the working out of what is popularly called chance; not that the notion at all satisfies me." See further under Agnostiks.... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1907 - 220 pages
...on all sides : he is inclined to look on everything, with its details, 1 It is Mr Darwin who speaks. whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance ! " So, then, with natural selection — with evolution — that is what it all comes to. Nor can,... | |
 | George William von Tunzelmann - 1910 - 696 pages
...is shown in his letter to Asa Gray, written on 22nd May 1860, in which he observed :— " I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe,...whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me." In a later letter (2Gth November 1860) to the... | |
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