 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 σελίδες
...and abortive organs, &c., will ceaso to be metaphorical, and will have a plain signification. When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension ; when we regard every production of nature as one which... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 σελίδες
...and abortive organs, &c., will cease to be metaphorical, and will have a plain signification. When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension ; when we regard every production of nature as one which... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 598 σελίδες
...will the study of Natural History become' (521). What then ! do naturalists and anatomists of repute look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship ? can they not explain a large portion of the design of that organization, though they be not adherents... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 406 σελίδες
...will the study of Natural History become ' (521). What then ! do naturalists and anatomists of repute look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship ? can they not explain a large portion of the design of that organization, though they be not adherents... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1861 - 580 σελίδες
...inude to assist in solving the great question of Whence and Whither. As Mr. Darwin writes : — ' When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a Ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which... | |
 | George St. Clair - 1873 - 280 σελίδες
...Conclusion. I deeper than Silurian strata, but draw their nourishment from the same source ? " When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension ; when we regard every production of nature as one which... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 σελίδες
...and aborted organs, &c., will cease to be metaphorical, and will have a plain signification. When wo no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond hia comprehension ; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a... | |
 | 1879 - 614 σελίδες
...cease to be metaphorical, and will have a plain signitieation ? " Do we not indeed begin to feel that " we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension? And when we regard every production of nature as one which has had... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 722 σελίδες
...cease to be metaphorical, and will have a plain signification?" Do we not indeed begin to feel that "we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension ; and when we regard every production of nature as one which has had... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 960 σελίδες
...cease to be metaphorical, and will have a plain signification ? " Do we not indeed begin to feel that "we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension ; and when we regard every production of nature as one which has had... | |
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... history ; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor... 
