 | Kevin Mills - 2007 - 234 Seiten
...coalescence, largely by virtue of what is left unsaid. "I see no good reason," writes Darwin defensively, "why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one" (388). Now the only reason for mentioning the shocking of religious feelings here is the assumption... | |
 | Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) - 1885 - 524 Seiten
...may quote the following interesting passage from the Origin of Species : — " I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1885 - 808 Seiten
...enhanced, if possible, by the context, it being preceded by the remark that " I see " no good reason why the views given in this volume should " shock the religious feelings of anyone," and followed by a sort of endorsement from a letter written him by a " cele" brated author... | |
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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,... 
