 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1885 - 342 páginas
...the opinion of Helmholtz, very candidly says — " To suppose that the eye, with all its immutable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...for admitting different amounts of light, and for * Lectures and Eisays, by the late WK Clifford, FES, vol. i., p. 145. the correction of spherical and... | |
 | Januarius De Concilio - 1889 - 276 páginas
...suppose,' he says, 'that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to difierent distances, for admitting different amounts of light,...and for the correction of spherical and chromatic ab'-ro. urns, could have been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1902 - 472 páginas
...Organs of extreme perfection and complication. — To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...could have been formed by natural selection, seems, 1 freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations... | |
 | Thomas Hunt Morgan - 1903 - 498 páginas
...accounted for by natural selection, as follows : — " To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." The following sketch that Darwin gives to show how he imagined the vertebrate eye to have been formed... | |
 | Dennis Hird - 1903 - 260 páginas
...the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correcting of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Still, this could hardly be considered more wonderful than a first-rate printing press. No man could... | |
 | Dennis Hird - 1903 - 256 páginas
...extreme perfection and complexity. He himself says : " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...admitting different amounts of light, and for the correcting of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems,... | |
 | Charles Edmund Fisher - 1904 - 404 páginas
...and restorative purposes any more startling than the evolution of the eye "with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...correction of spherical and chromatic aberration?" Within the highest division of the animal kingdom, the vertebrates, we can start with an eye so simple... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 584 páginas
...auks. ORGANS OF EXTREME PERFECTION AND COMPLICATION. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and forThe correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection,... | |
 | 1863 - 712 páginas
...difficulty and brings about every result. Mr. Darwin says : To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seemai I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1914 - 524 páginas
...speculation, as when he says, concerning the eye, — To suppose that the eye, with its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. — p. 186. But he soon returns to his new wantonness of conjecture, and, without... | |
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To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection,... 
