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Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … in Galileo’s time, we might have helped to proscribe, or to burn—had he been stubborn enough to …
- … encountered a sentence, like Prof. Owen’s ‘axiom of the continuous operation of the ordained …
- … preventive checks; so that not more than one of a hundred or a thousand of the individuals whose …
- … propagate, and to occupy the limited field, to the exclusion or destruction of the weaker brethren. …
- … no means difficult to believe that varieties are incipient or possible species, when we see what …
- … the basis in Nature upon which our idea of species reposes, or how the word is to be defined. Indeed …
- … the human races, as to whether they belong to one species or to more, and, if to more, whether to …
- … labor); and also leads to much extinction of intermediate or unimproved forms. Now, though this …
- … and the Hottentot our blood-relations—not that reason or Scripture objects to that, though pride may …
- … for our forerunners—at least, not until some monkey, live or fossil, is producible with great-toes, …
- … a supernatural beginning of life on earth, in some form or forms of being which included potentially …
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- … illustration: man alters from time to time his instruments or machines, as new circumstances or …
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- … cattle. In course of time the old ones would be worn out or wrecked; the best sorts would be chosen …
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- … or other type are grouped in the same country, or occupy continuous, proximate, or accessible areas. …
- … one by one, a theory for what Owen sonorously calls ‘the continuous operation of the ordained …
- … the more intense, however gradual, climatic vicissitudes on land, which have driven all tropical and …
- … well he may, since he records his belief in ‘a continuous creative operation,’ a constantly …
- … what a beggarly account it would be! How many of the land animals and plants which are enumerated in …
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