 Thomson's views of the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles, and so I have been glad to read what you say.  Thomas Henry Huxley - Page 91by Edward Clodd - 1902 - 252 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 572 pages
...in Croll than you seem to do ; but I have been much struck by many of your remarks on degradation. Thomson's views of the recent age of the world have...been for some time one of my sorest troubles, and so I have been glad to read what you say. Your exposition of Natural Selection seems to me inimitably... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 590 pages
...in Croll than you seem to do ; but I have been much struck by many of your remarks on degradation. Thomson's views of the recent age of the world have...been for some time one of my sorest troubles, and so I have been glad to read what you say. Your exposition of Natural Selection seems to me inimitably... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...attack. Farewell; God knows why I bother you about myself. I can say nothing more about missing-links than what I have said. I should rely much on pre-silurian...then comes Sir W. Thomson like an odious spectre.* Farewell. "... There is a most cutting review of me in the [July] Quarterly ; I have only read a few... | |
 | Natural history - 1896 - 434 pages
...unproved, but of which the truth is almost impossible. Professor Poulton quotes Darwin to the effect that " Thomson's views of the recent age of the world have...been for some time one of my sorest troubles," and that to his mental vision their author was "an odious spectre." In this judgment Darwin was truer than... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 920 pages
...in Croll than you seem to do ; but I have been much struck by many of your remarks on degradation. Thomson's views of the recent age of the world have...been for some time one of my sorest troubles, and so I have been glad to read what you say. Your exposition of Natural Selection seems to me inimitably... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1896 - 1358 pages
...again, ofcu,e about 1871, alluding to Mivart's criticisms, he says: 'I can say nothing moi^ times : missing links than what I have said. I should rely much on pre-Silurian but then comes Sir W. Thomson, like an odious spectre.' Huxley's demands for time in order to account... | |
 | 1898 - 210 pages
...Quarterly Review of the same month, stating an objection which we shall have occasion to note presently : " Thomson's views of the recent age of the world have...been for some time one of my sorest troubles, and so I have been glad to read what you say." And again, in another place : 2 " I can say nothing more... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Natural selection - 1905 - 514 pages
...Farewell. God knows why I bother you about myself. " I can say nothing more about missing links than I have said. I should rely much on pre-Silurian times ; but then comes Sir W. Thompson like an odious spectre. Farewell" I give these extracts because they serve to explain why... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Natural selection - 1905 - 530 pages
...Farewell. God knows why I bother you about myself. " I can say nothing more about missing links than I have said. I should rely much on pre-Silurian times ; but then comes Sir W. Thompson like an odious spectre. Farewell." I give these extracts because they serve to explain why... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Natural selection - 1905 - 510 pages
...Farewell. God knows why I bother you about myself. " I can say nothing more about missing links than I have said. I should rely much on pre-Silurian times ; but then comes Sir W. Thompson like an odious spectre. Farewell." I give these extracts because they serve to explain why... | |
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