For the British association, Swansea meeting, 1880. On the plumage of birds and butterflies [a paper]. |
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Seite 14 - Perhaps not. You must read the " Revelations ;" it is all explained. But what is most interesting, is the way in which man has been developed. You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something ; then, I forget the next, I think there were shells, then fishes ; then we came, let me see, did we come next ? Never mind that ; we came at last. And the next change there will be something very superior to us, something with wings. Ah...
Seite 9 - ... any one who is acquainted with the history of science will admit that its progress has, in all ages, meant, and now, more than ever, means, the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity.
Seite 9 - In itself it is of little moment whether we express the phenomena of matter in terms of spirit, or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter: matter may be regarded as a form of thought, thought may be regarded as a property of matter; each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science, the materialistic terminology is in every way to be preferred.
Seite 13 - When we study the fossil man of the quaternary period, who must, of course, have stood comparatively near to our primitive ancestors in the order of descent, or rather of ascent, we find always a man, just such men as are now. . . . The old troglodytes, pile-villagers, and bog-people prove to be quite a respectable society. They have heads so large that many a living person would...
Seite 13 - You are aware that I am now specially engaged in the study of anthropology, but — • I am bound to declare that every positive advance which we have made in the province of pre-historic anthropology has actually removed us further from the proof of such a connection.
Seite 13 - As recently as ten years ago, whenever a skull was found in a peat bog, or in...
Seite 3 - ... to his bantams, according to his standard of beauty, I can see no good reason to doubt that female birds, by selecting, during thousands of generations, the most melodious or beautiful males, according to their standard beauty, might produce a marked effect.
Seite 13 - They smelt out the very scent of the ape : only this has continually been more and more lost. The old troglodytes, pile-villagers, and bogpeople, prove to be quite a respectable society. They have heads so large that many a living person would be only too happy to possess such.
Seite 13 - Every attempt to transform our problems into doctrines, to introduce our hypotheses as the bases of instruction — especially the attempt simply to dispossess the Church, and to supplant its dogmas forthwith by a religion of evolution — be assured, gentlemen, every such attempt will make shipwreck, and in its wreck will also bring with it the greatest perils for the whole position of science.
Seite 11 - ... Well may Francis Newman say : " When we ask by what right a man tortures these innocent creatures, the only reply that can be given is, because we are more intelligent. If in the eye of God this is justifiable, then a just God might permit a devil to torture us in the cause of diabolic science. . . . To cut up a living horse day after day in order to practise students in dissection is a crime and abomination hardly less monstrous from his not having an immortal soul. An inevitable logic would...