 | Henry Fairfield Osborn - Evolution - 1917 - 378 pages
...Osbom, HF, "The Hereditary Mechanism and the Search for the Unknown Factors of Evolution," The Amer. Naturalist, May, 1895, pp. 418-439. scepticism. Thus...some extent how plants and animals and man evolve; we~3b not know whv thev_ evolve. We know, for example, that there has existed a more or less complete... | |
 | Book collecting - 1918 - 840 pages
...of Lamarck, of Darwin, of Weismann, of de Vries, science to-day outspokenly acknowledges that, while we know to some extent how plants and animals and man evolve, we do not know why they evolve. So far as a century and a quarter ago Kant boldly asserted "that it is absurd for man to hope that... | |
 | 1921 - 560 pages
...period of evolution, experiment, and reasoning which began with the French natural philosopher, Buffon, one hundred and fifty years ago, ends in 1916 with...existed a more or less complete chain of beings from nomad to man, that the one-toed horse had a four-toed ancestor, that man has descended from an unknown... | |
 | Theosophy - 1921 - 412 pages
...forces behind the chromatin?" — it is simply because he has frankly admitted, from the outset, that "we know to some extent how plants and animals and man evolve; we do not know why they evolve." Professor Osborn speaks of periods of 3,000,000 years for the Tertiary, and 12,000,000, for the era... | |
 | George Thomas White Patrick - Philosophy - 1924 - 486 pages
...fact, the causes of the evolution of life are as mysterious as the law of evolution is certain. . . . Our present state of opinion is this: we know to some...animals and man evolve; we do not know why they evolve. . . . Again, despite the powerful advocacy of pure Darwinism by Weismann and de Vries in the new turn... | |
 | George Thomas White Patrick - Philosophy - 1924 - 490 pages
...fact, the causes of the evolution of life are as mysterious as the law of evolution is certain. . . . Our present state of opinion is this: we know to some...animals and man evolve; we do not know why they evolve Again, despite the powerful advocacy of pure Darwinism by Weismann and de Vries in the new turn that... | |
 | Eldred Cornelius Vanderlaan - Fundamentalism - 1925 - 500 pages
...the^long period of observation, experiment and reasoning which began with the French philosopher, Buffon, one hundred and fifty years ago ends in 1916 with...far from being near completion, has only just begun. EVOLUTION OPPOSED BY SCIENTISTS But opposition to evolution was by no means confined to the church... | |
 | George Thomas White Patrick - Philosophy - 1924 - 490 pages
...fact, the causes of the evolution of life are as mysterious as the law of evolution is certain. . . . Our present state of opinion is this: we know to some extent how plants and animala and man evolve; we do not know why they evolve . Again, despite the powerful advocacy of pure... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1918 - 564 pages
...actions, reactions and interactions of living energy will prove to be a step in the right direction. Our present state of opinion is this : We know to...not know why they evolve. We know, for example, that therehas existed a more or less complete chain of beings from monad (bacteria) to man, that the one-toed... | |
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... waves of faith in one explanation and then in another: each of these waves of confidence has ended in disappointment, until finally we have reached a stage of very general scepticism. 