 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
 | David N. Livingstone - 1997 - 228 pages
...almost necessary (br brevity. So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature; but 1 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 sttprrf ici;tl objections... | |
 | Günter Figal, Damir Barbarić - 2003 - 378 pages
...Wahrscheinlichkeitslogik an. >Natural selection< sei keine »active power or Deity«. »I mean by Nature,« heißt es, »only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us.«24 Dieser zurückhaltenden Logik werden einige Forscher... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 456 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... | |
 | David N. Stamos - 2012 - 296 pages
...the Universe" (224). In Variation (1868 I) Darwin wrote, with the above deism now noticeably missing, "I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws" (7). Accordingly Darwin also defined science in terms of laws. In his autobiography (1876a) he wrote... | |
 | Nathaniel C. Comfort - 2007 - 196 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 laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us. With a little familiarity such superficial objections... | |
 | W. Noel Keyes - 2007 - 1234 pages
...several of these writers had said: "I speak of natural selection as an active power or Diety . . . 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... | |
 | B. A. Lustig, B.A. Brody, Gerald P. McKenny - 2008 - 338 pages
...vital properties nor intentional agency: "... 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... | |
 | 1886 - 964 pages
...personified the word Nature j for I have found it difficult to avoid this ambiguity ; hut I mean hy nature only the aggregate action and product of many...laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events.' But while he thus clearly saw, and distinctly asserted, that the factors of organic evolution... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 552 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... | |
 | 128 pages
...which it in preference combines. ... 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. Also (I: 98). Variations neither useful nor injurious... | |
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