I feel profoundly convinced that the argument of design has been greatly too much lost sight of in recent zoological speculations. Reaction against the frivolities of teleology, such as are to be found, not rarely, in the notes of the learned commentators... Evolution and Dogma - Page 414by John Augustine Zahm - 1896 - 461 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Anderson Read - Authors, Irish - 1880 - 394 pages
...seems to me a most valuable and instructive criticism. I feel profoundly convinced that the argument of design has been greatly too much lost sight of in recent zoological speculations. Reaction against the frivolities of teleology, such as are to be found, not rarely, in the notes of... | |
| 1881 - 596 pages
..." I feel profoundly convinced," this very competent authority told his hearers, " that the argument of design has been greatly too much lost sight of in recent zoological speculations. Reaction against the frivolities of teleology, such as are to be found, not rarely, in the notes of... | |
| Randolph Sinks Foster - God - 1890 - 472 pages
..."Spontaneous Generation: — Lay Sermons," pp. 364-366. " ' I feel profoundly convinced that the argument of design has been greatly too much lost sight of in recent zoological speculations. Reaction against the frivolities of teleology, such as are to be found not rarely in the notes of the... | |
| George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - Medicine - 1894 - 890 pages
...evolution, if evolution there has been in biology. ... I feel profoundly convinced that the argument of design has been greatly too much lost sight of...turn us away from them for a time, they come back to us with irresistible force, showing to us through nature the influence of a free-will, and teaching... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1894 - 1104 pages
...evolution, if evolution there has been in biology. ... I feel profoundly convinced that the argument of design has been greatly too much lost sight of in recent zoological speculations. Overpoweringly stron" proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us, and if ever perplexities, whether... | |
| Chemistry - 1894 - 458 pages
...evolution, if evolution there has been in biology. ... I feel profoundly convinced that the argument of design has been greatly too much lost sight of in recent zoological speculations. Overpowering!/ strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us, and if ever perplexities,... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - Science - 1894 - 624 pages
...seems to me a most valuable and instructive criticism. I feel profoundly convinced that the argument of design has been greatly too much lost sight of in recent zoological speculations. Reaction against frivolities of teleology, such as are to be found, not rarely, in the notes of learned... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1895 - 938 pages
...selection does not contain the true theory of evolution, if evolution there has been in biology. . . . Overpoweringly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent...metaphysical or scientific, turn us away from them fora time, they come back upon us with irresistible force, showing to us through Nature the influence... | |
| Henry Grattan Guinness - Astronomy - 1896 - 586 pages
...of Evolution, if Evolution there has been in biology. I feel profoundly convinced that the argument of design has been greatly too much lost sight of in recent biological speculations. Overpoweringly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around... | |
| Karl Pearson - Games & Activities - 1897 - 416 pages
...organs, and the treatment of these measurements by a complex statistical theory. that the argument of design has been greatly too much lost sight of in recent zoological speculations." If the physicist will, if he can help it, have none of the miraculous in the maintenance of the sun's... | |
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