| Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 páginas
...ruling the movements of the planets? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions ; and they are almost necessary for brevity....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... | |
| 1867 - 510 páginas
...ruling the movements of the planets ? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions, and they are almost necessary for brevity....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... | |
| Robert Willis - 1870 - 704 páginas
...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 : ' Pantheistic Immaneney properly considered,'... | |
| John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 578 páginas
...ruling the movements of the planets ? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions, and they are almost necessary for brevity....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,... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1873 - 626 páginas
...invokes not His aid in the processes of nature ; nor yet does he deify nature, but says this of her : "It is difficult to avoid personifying the word nature...laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." It is obvious that the effect of the theory is displacement of God from His works and from the mind... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1873 - 662 páginas
...invokes not His aid in the processes of nature ; nor yet does he deify nature, but says this of her : " It is difficult to avoid personifying the word nature...laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." It is obvious that the effect of the theory is displacement of God from His works and from the mind... | |
| Thomas Suter Ackland - 1873 - 250 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 páginas
...ruling the movements of the planets ? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity....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 »uch... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1878 - 642 páginas
...invokes not His aid in the processes of nature ; nor yet does he deify nature, hut says this of her : " It is difficult to avoid personifying the word nature...laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." It is obvious that the effect of the theory is displacement of God from His works and from the mind... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1878 - 616 páginas
...nature, hut says this of her : "It is difficult to avoid personifying the word nature ; hut I mean hy nature, only the aggregate action and product of many...laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us. " It is obvious that the effect of the theory is displacement of God from His works and from the miud... | |
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