 | Charles Joseph Parker - 1870 - 204 pages
...is caused by slight changes in the conditions of life which must often have occurred under Nature. Man, therefore, may be said to have been trying an...organic beings thus treated have varied largely, and the varieties have been inherited. This has apparently been one chief cause of the belief long held by... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 510 pages
...conditions of life, which must often have occurred under nature. Man, therefore, may be said to hrivi- Ijcen trying an experiment on a gigantic scale ; and it...incessantly tried. Hence it follows that the principles "f domestication are important for us. The main result is that organic lacings thus treated have varied... | |
 | 1879 - 614 pages
...to the undeniable force of the argument from analogy stated in a sentence in the introduction: "Man may be said to have been trying an experiment on a...during the long lapse of time, has incessantly tried." But it was still more due to the unexpected use of the vast body of apparently trivial facts and observations... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 674 pages
...undeniable force of the argument from analogy stated in a sentence in the introduction : — " Man may be said to have been trying an experiment on a...during the long lapse of time has incessantly tried." But it was still more due to the unexpected use of the vast body of apparently trivial facts and observations... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 722 pages
...tbt undeniable force of the argument from analogy stated in a sentence in the introduction: — "Man may be said to have been trying an experiment on a...during the long lapse of time has incessantly tried." But it was still more due to the unexpected use of the vast body of apparently trivial facts and observations... | |
 | Edward Woodall - 1884 - 100 pages
...the undeniable force of the argument from analogy stated in a sentence in the introduction : ' Man may be said to have been trying an experiment on a...during the long lapse of time, has incessantly tried.' Like Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain, who was delighted to find that he had been unwittingly talking prose... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 504 pages
...is caused by slight changes in tho conditions of life, which must often have occurred under nature. Man, therefore, may be said to have been trying an...time has incessantly tried. Hence it follows that tho principles of domestication are important for us. Tho main result is that organic beings thus treated... | |
 | 1890 - 838 pages
...one that grows. Cultivation is but an empiricism suggested by nature. "Man, therefore," says Darwin, "may be said to have been trying an experiment on...during the long lapse of time has incessantly tried." As man's efforts are intenser than nature's, so his labors have given more marked results ; or, to... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1892 - 518 pages
...is caused by slight changes in the conditions of life, which must often have occurred under nature. Man, therefore, may be said to have been trying an...organic beings thus treated have varied largely, and tho variations liavo been inherited. This has apparently been one chief causo of tho belief long hold... | |
 | Charles Clement Coe - 1895 - 648 pages
...After Danuin. pp. 295-6.) This is the position which is taken by Mr. Darwin and his expositors. " Man may be said to have been trying an experiment on a...principles of domestication are important for us." — (Darwin. The Variation. 1 st. ed. vol. t., pj) " The experimental argument which lies at the very... | |
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Man, therefore, may be said to have been trying an experiment on a gigantic scale ; and it is an experiment which nature during the long lapse of time has incessantly tried. 
