The Harveian oration, 1865, Τεύχος 27 |
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... able to dismiss from consideration a mass of writers of older date or of inferior calibre , and at once to mark the issue of a question which is now agitating deeply , though often silently , the minds of men who think , either in ...
... able to dismiss from consideration a mass of writers of older date or of inferior calibre , and at once to mark the issue of a question which is now agitating deeply , though often silently , the minds of men who think , either in ...
Σελίδα 21
... able men by neglect . For my own part , recognizing the skill , indus- try , and genius of M. Comte , and the esteem in which parts of his literary labours are very properly held , I am grateful that he should have thrown down the ...
... able men by neglect . For my own part , recognizing the skill , indus- try , and genius of M. Comte , and the esteem in which parts of his literary labours are very properly held , I am grateful that he should have thrown down the ...
Σελίδα 23
... able to discharge the needful duties of life . Other explanations of like sort which men give , one and all put effect for cause through wrongheaded reason- ing ; since nothing was born in the body that we might use it , but that which ...
... able to discharge the needful duties of life . Other explanations of like sort which men give , one and all put effect for cause through wrongheaded reason- ing ; since nothing was born in the body that we might use it , but that which ...
Σελίδα 27
... able directly to conceive , in conformity with the aggre- gate of our biological laws , organisms which differ notably from all that we know , and which would be incontestably superior to them under a definite point of view , while p ...
... able directly to conceive , in conformity with the aggre- gate of our biological laws , organisms which differ notably from all that we know , and which would be incontestably superior to them under a definite point of view , while p ...
Σελίδα 28
... able to discover with certainty all the con- ditions necessary for producing a structure so complicated as the Eye ; and secondly , that such structure , when made , is still within the range of action of the more general laws which ...
... able to discover with certainty all the con- ditions necessary for producing a structure so complicated as the Eye ; and secondly , that such structure , when made , is still within the range of action of the more general laws which ...
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