Man in the Light of EvolutionD. Appleton and Company, 1908 - 230 páginas |
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action adapted Adaptive Radiation ages amphibia ancestors animal kingdom attained become Birds body brain Carnivora cells CENOZOIC CHAPTER Chart clam Cloth complete conformed to environment crustacea Darwin DAVID STARR JORDAN degeneration descendants digestion dominance Ethics extinction faith feeling fish fittest future gained geological periods goal habit Hence higher plane higher power highest human evolution Huxley ideals important individual instinct institutions intellectual knowledge learning legs Lemurs live locomotion mammals man's means ment mental mesozoic mind mollusks moral and religious motives muscles muscular muscular system natural selection Origin of Species paleozoic physical possible primitive progress promise Protozoa race racial experience religion reptiles result Rodents seems skeleton slowly social society Socrates species stage structure success sure surroundings survive tendencies theory things thought tion truth vertebrate vigor vision worms York young zoöphytic
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Página 194 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Página 195 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Página 125 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Página 155 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Página 125 - Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Página 193 - Poor soul, here for so little, cast among so many hardships, filled with desires so incommensurate and so inconsistent, savagely surrounded, savagely descended, irremediably condemned to prey upon his fellow lives; who should have blamed him had he been of a piece with his destiny and a being merely barbarous?
Página 193 - To touch the heart of his mystery, we find in him one thought, strange to the point of lunacy: the thought of duty; the thought of something owing to himself, to his neighbour, to his God: an ideal of decency, to which he would rise if it were possible; a limit of shame, below which, if it be possible, he will not stoop.
Página 40 - Nay more, thoughtful men, once escaped from the blinding influences of traditional prejudice, will find in the lowly stock whence man has sprung, the best evidence of the splendour of his capacities; and will discern in his long progress through the past, a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler Future.