Our blood relations; or, The Darwinian theory [a poem, by C.W. Grant.]. |
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หน้า 61 - 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.
หน้า 16 - I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious ; but he who denounces them is bound to show why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower form, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction.
หน้า 12 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
หน้า 53 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
หน้า 15 - Groups having the morphological character of species — distinct and permanent races, in fact — have been so produced over and over again ; but there is no positive evidence, at present, that any group of animals has, by variation and selective breeding, given rise to another group which was, even in the least degree, infertile with the first.
หน้า 64 - These actions may then be said to be degraded in character, for they are no longer performed through reason or from experience. But the greater number of the more complex instincts appear to have been gained in a wholly different manner, through the natural selection of variations of simpler instinctive actions.
หน้า 70 - Consequently we ought frankly to admit their community of descent : to take any other view, is to admit that our own structure and that of all the animals around us, is a mere :snare laid to entrap our judgment.
หน้า 14 - There is no proof, that all the differences, which now distinguish organised beings, are such as may have been produced by circumstances. All that has been advanced upon this subject is hypothetical. Experience, on the contrary, appears to prove, that, in the actual state of the globe, varieties are confined within rather narrow limits, and go back as far as we may, we still find those limits the same.
หน้า 11 - ... intelligible, if we admit their descent from a common progenitor, together with their subsequent adaptation to diversified conditions. On any other view, the similarity of pattern between the hand of a man or monkey, the foot of a horse, the flipper of a seal, the wing of a bat, &c, is utterly inexplicable. It is no scientific explanation to assert that they have all been formed on the same ideal plan.
หน้า 60 - My object in this chapter is to show that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.