 | Zoology - 1894 - 518 pages
...selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue, for instance, that the beautiful hinge of a bivalve must have been made by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by man. There can be no more design in the variability of organic beings and in the action of natural selection,... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1895 - 634 pages
...formerly seemed so conclusive, fails, now that the law of Natural Selection has been discovered. Wo can no longer argue that, for instance, the beautiful...design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of Natural Selection, than in the course which the wind blows." A pretty decided antithesis... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 542 pages
...selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue, for instance, that the beautiful hinge of a bivalve must have been made by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by man. There can be no more design in the variability of organic beings and in the action of natural selection,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...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...design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows. But I have discussed this subject... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...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...design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows. But I have discussed this subject... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...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...design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows. But I have discussed this subject... | |
 | Paul Carus - Religion - 1928 - 838 pages
...force, was floored in its first bout with Natural Selection. He could no longer feel any conviction that "the beautiful hinge of a bivalve shell must have...intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by man." Henceforth he could see no more indication of conscious design in the diversified structures of living... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...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...design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows. But I have discussed this subject... | |
 | Science - 1888 - 898 pages
...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...design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows.* An incidental allusion, in a... | |
 | Science - 1888 - 938 pages
...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...by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door hy man. There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of... | |
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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... 
