 | Literature - 1875 - 820 pages
...to originate life and the primary mental powers he leaves unquestioned. He says in the " Origin," " I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one," and quotes approvingly the declaration of a celebrated author and divine, '• that he has gradually... | |
 | Juan José Parodiz - Natural history - 1981 - 164 pages
...fore-thought by Darwin, as he declared in the recapitulation and conclusions of his book that he could "see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one". In the whole story of evolution Darwin is perhaps the less "darwinian" character, rather than the one... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1993 - 836 pages
...unknown element of attraction is now universally looked at as a vera causa perfectly well established.] [ I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...power does not long endure. Origin of Speciei 1859. 1956 (London: Dent) p 454 11 I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone. Origin of ipeciet 1859 12 My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general... | |
 | Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe - Philosophy - 1997 - 276 pages
...that Leibniz formerly accused Newton of introducing "occult qualities and miracles into philosophy." I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest... | |
 | Colin Patterson - Science - 1999 - 182 pages
...the right are on the side of the genes, and our heritage from the distant past. 16.5 Human nature / see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious fee/ings of any one, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species This concluding section is to meet the reader... | |
 | Brian J. Alters, Sandra Alters - Business & Economics - 2001 - 280 pages
...in a manner less threatening to students. CHAPTER 3 Why Students Reject Evolution: Religious Reasons "I see no good reason why the views given in this...volume should shock the religious feelings of any one." — Charles Darwin, 1872, The Origin of Species] Alas, if only it were true for everyone. However,... | |
 | Patricia Murphy - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 318 pages
...27). Even Darwin attempted to dilute the religious implications of the Origin in asserting that "1 see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one" (452). As support, he quoted a letter sent to him by a "celebrated author and divine": [H]e has gradually... | |
 | R. J. Berry - Religion - 2001 - 196 pages
...believe the Bible and to follow Christ to embrace evolutionism. Henry Morris in King of Creation (1980) / see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone. Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species (1859) There is a proper time and procedure for every... | |
 | Leslie Alan Horvitz - Science - 2001 - 356 pages
...expect the passions that Origin would stir up. He expressed his astonishment at the controversy. " see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone," he wrote. In fact, Darwin was anxious to avoid getting into an theological or sociological... | |
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It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed,... 
