The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and MoralityJansen, McClurg, 1883 - 410 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
according acknowledgment action activity advocates animal world anthropomorphism appearance atoms attempt Biblical called causal cause certainly Christian conception conclusion connection consciousness Creator D. F. Strauss Darwin Darwinian theories descent theory divine doctrine DuBois-Reymond Eduard von Hartmann ence entirely ethical ethical naturalism evolution theory explain fact faith favor geology germs gives Gustav Jäger Häckel higher highest human hypothesis ical idea ideal impulse individual inorganic investigation knowledge lowest mankind material Max Müller mechanical ment metaphysical mind miracles monism moral self-determination motion Natural History natural science natural selection object observation organic origin of self-consciousness origin of species philosophic plants position in reference present primordial cells problems qualities question realm reason reference to religion reject relation religious result says scientific scientists selection theory sensation single spiritual stage Strauss struggle for existence teleology theism theistic things tion truth vertebrates whole Wilhelm Bleek
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 287 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years...
Seite 300 - And GOD created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and GOD saw that it was good.
Seite 113 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed as in man.
Seite 205 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Seite 307 - For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished...
Seite 187 - If Religion and Science are to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the Universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable.
Seite 205 - It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.
Seite 205 - A celebrated author and divine has written to me that " he has gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that He required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of His laws.
Seite 120 - Various classes of facts thus unite to prove that the law of metamorphosis, which holds among the physical forces, holds equally between them and the mental forces. Those modes of the Unknowable which we call motion, heat, light, chemical affinity, &c., are alike transformable into each other, and into those modes of the Unknowable which we distinguish as sensation, emotion, thought : these, in their turns, being directly or indirectly re-transformable into the original shapes.
Seite 98 - I had not formerly sufficiently considered the existence of many structures which appear to be, as far as we can judge, neither beneficial nor injurious; and this I believe to be one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work.