Prof. Huxley in AmericaTribune., 1876 - 36 sivua |
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Sivu 16 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts ; then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Sivu 17 - Suppose that a man tells you that he saw a person strike another and kill him ; that is testimonial evidence of the fact of murder. But it is possible to have circumstantial evidence of the fact of murder ; that is to say, you may find a man dying with a wound upon his head having exactly the form and character of the wound which is made by an axe, and, with due care in taking surrounding circumstances into account, you may conclude with the utmost certainty that the man has been murdered ; that...
Sivu 19 - Scientific men get an awkward habit — no, I won't call it that, for it is a valuable habit — of believing nothing unless there is evidence for it; and they have a way of looking upon belief which is not based upon evidence, not only as illogical, but as immoral.
Sivu 34 - So you are able, thanks to these great researches, to show that, so far as present knowledge extends, the history of the horse type is exactly and precisely that which could have been predicted from a knowledge of the principles of evolution. And the knowledge we now possess justifies us completely in the anticipation that when the still lower eocene deposits and those which belong to the cretaceous epoch have yielded up their remains of equine animals, we shall find first an equine creature with...
Sivu 34 - An inductive hypothesis is said to be demonstrated when the facts are shown to be in entire accordance with it. If that is not scientific proof, there are no merely inductive conclusions which can be said to be proved. And the doctrine of evolution, at the present time, rests upon exactly as secure a foundation as the Copernican theory of the motions of the heavenly bodies did at the time of its promulgation.
Sivu 15 - Whatever may be men's speculative doctrines, it is quite certain that every intelligent person guides his life and risks his fortune upon the belief that the order of Nature is constant, and that the chain of natural causation is never broken.
Sivu 16 - The hypothesis of evolution supposes that in all this vast progression there would be no breach of continuity, no point at which we could say
Sivu 3 - Morse, and which has occup'ed so much attention since Darwin's great work on species. Before the gathering of such materials as those to which I refer, evolution was more a matter of speculation and argument, though we who adhered to the doctrine had good grounds for our belief. Now things are changed, and it has become a matter of fact and history. The history of evolution as a matter of fact, is now distinctly traceable. We know it has happened, and what remains for discussion is the subordinate...
Sivu 15 - But we must recollect that any human belief, however broad its basis, however defensible it may seem, is, after all, only a probable belief, and that our widest and safest generalizations are simply statements of the highest degree of probability.
Sivu 17 - I understand by these two kinds of evidence, and what is to be said respecting their value. Suppose that a man tells you that he saw a person strike another and kill him ; that is testimonial evidence of the fact of murder. But it is possible to have circumstantial evidence of the fact...