The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and MoralityJansen, McClurg, 1885 - 410 Seiten |
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The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2022 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
able according acknowledgment action activity advocates animal world anthropomorphism appearance attempt Biblical called causal cause certainly Christian conception conclusion condition connection consciousness creation Creator D. F. Strauss Darwin Darwinian theories decidedly descent theory divine doctrine DuBois-Reymond earth Eduard von Hartmann elements ence entirely ethical ethical naturalism evolution theory explain fact faith finally germs gives Gustav Jäger Häckel higher highest human hypothesis ical idea impulse individual inorganic instincts investigation knowledge laws leads living mankind material matter ment metaphysical mind miracles monism motion natural science natural selection object observation organic origin of self-consciousness origin of sensation origin of species perception phenomena philosophy position in reference possible present primitive primordial cells problem psychical qualities question realm reason reject relation religion religious result says scientific scientists selection theory single spiritual Strauss struggle for existence teleology theism theistic things tion truth whole Wilhelm Bleek
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 297 - 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 215 - 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.
Seite 215 - has gradually learned 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 119 - moral sense": "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, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Seite 200 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear ? He that formed the eye, shall he not see ?
Seite 126 - 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, etc., are alike transformable into each other, and into those modes of the unknowable which we distinguish as sensation,
Seite 317 - dogs, as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.
Seite 116 - But how can we feel sure that an old dog with an excellent memory and some power of imagination, as shown by his dreams, never reflects on his past pleasures or pains in the chase? This would be a form of self-consciousness.
Seite 195 - 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 219 - It does not seem an improbable conclusion that all force may be will-force; and thus, that the whole universe is not merely dependent on, but actually is, the WILL of higher intelligences or of one Supreme Intelligence.