 So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us.  America's Greatest Problem: the Negro - Page 80by Robert Wilson Shufeldt - 1915 - 377 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 542 pages
...distinctly be borne in mind that by Nature, though it is difficult to avoid personifying it, he meant "only the aggregate action and product of many natural...laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events. He found it difficult to admit of any personality or designer in any way using natural selection... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 pages
...are almost necessary for brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial objections... | |
 | 1867 - 510 pages
...are almost necessary for brevity. So, again, it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but I mean by Nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." — (P. 91-2.) Now, I think in the face of this it behoves... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 406 pages
...are almost necessary for brevity. So, again, it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature, but I mean by Nature only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws, the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 598 pages
...are almost necessary for brevity. So, again, it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature, but I mean by Nature only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws, the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial... | |
 | Robert Willis - 1870 - 704 pages
...things.' He speaks of it again as ' an Active power or Deity ; ' and by ' Nature,' he says, ' I mean the aggregate action and product of many natural laws ; and by Laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us.' — Darwin, Origin of Species, 4th Ed. p. 92. To conclude... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 578 pages
...are almost necessary for brevity. So, again, it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but I mean by Nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by-laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." So far this is clear enough, and we learn that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 pages
...they are almost necessary for brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by lawa the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial objections... | |
 | Thomas Suter Ackland - 1873 - 250 pages
...expressly excludes this sense of the word, in a sentence which seems to involve a self-contradiction. "I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by law only the ascertained sequence of events3." Law, in this sense, then, is simply the statement of... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1873 - 626 pages
...does he deify nature, but says this of her : "It is difficult to avoid personifying the word nature ; but I mean by nature, only the aggregate action and product of many laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." It is obvious that the effect of the... | |
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