 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 416 pages
...contemporaries who thought seriously about the matter, were very much in my own state of mind — inclined to say to both Mosaists and Evolutionists, " a plague...hold of clear and definite conceptions which could be brought face to face with facts and have their validity tested. The ' Origin ' provided us with the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1888 - 584 pages
...Wollaston's conservatism. With regard to Hooker, he was already, like Voltaire's Habbakuk, "capable df tout" in the way of advocating Evolution. As I have...hold of clear and definite conceptions which could be brought face to face with facts and have their validity tested. The ' Origin ' provided us with the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1888 - 418 pages
...to both Mosaists and Evolutionists, " a plague on both your * ' Life and Letters,' vol. ii p. 212. houses ! " and disposed to turn aside from an interminable...hold of clear and definite conceptions which could be brought face to face with facts and have their validity tested. The ' Origin ' provided us with the... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 924 pages
...were looking for, and could not find, was an hypothesis respecting the origin of known organic forme which, assumed the operation of no causes but such...hold of clear and definite conceptions which could be brought face to face with facts and have their validity tested. The Origin provided us with the working... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1891 - 592 pages
...contemporaries who thought seriously about the matter, were very much in my own state of mind — inclined to say to both Mosaists and Evolutionists, " a plague...hold of clear and definite conceptions which could be brought face to face with facts and have their validity tested. The ' Origin ' provided us with the... | |
 | James Iverach - Christianity - 1894 - 252 pages
...central idea of the Origin of Species, and contains the quintessence of Darwinism." (Vol. ii., p. 195.) "That which we were looking for and could not find...hold of clear and definite conceptions which could be brought face to face with facts, and have their validity tested. The Origin provided us with the working... | |
 | James Iverach - Christianity - 1894 - 264 pages
...central idea of the Origin of Species, and contains the quintessence of Darwinism." (Vol. ii., p. 195.) " That which we were looking for and could not find...forms, which assumed the operation of no causes but sueh as could be proved to be actually at work. We wanted not to pin our faith to that or any other... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - Evolution - 1896 - 458 pages
...it take him straight home or not, certainly goes his way." What naturalists were then looking for " was a hypothesis respecting the origin of known organic...but such as could be proved to be actually at work." " The facts of variability," continues Huxley, "of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions,... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - Agnosticism - 1896 - 206 pages
...causes, it was really no scientific explanation to say that species were created. Darwinism assumed no causes but such as could be proved to be actually at work. It had, therefore, the essential requisite of every scientific hypothesis. Whether it was adequate... | |
 | Edward Clodd - Evolution - 1897 - 312 pages
...A plague on both your houses ! ' and disposed to turn aside from an interminable and ap- ' parently fruitless discussion to labour in the fertile fields...hold of clear and definite conceptions which could be brought face to face with facts, and have their validity tested. The Origin provided us with the working... | |
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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. We wanted, not to pin our faith to that or... 
