THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION

ISBN: 9780365466499 Géneros: PSAJ Sinópsis: Excerpt from The Doctrine of Evolution Its Data Its Principles Its Speculations and Its Theistic BearingsShould the reader demand categorically whether the author holds to the doctrine of evolution or not he replies that this seems clearly the law of universal intelligence under which complex results are brought into existence The existence and universality of a law operating upon materials so various and under circumstances so diverse but always evolving a suc cession of terms having the same values relatively to each other is a fact which to the ear of reason pro claims intelligence more loudly than any possible ar ray of isolated phenomena But the diversity of the materials with which the law has to deal brings out a variety of special values for the general terms of the evolutionary series Mechanical force acts with uniformity symmetry and always in one direction producing results congeneric with itself hence in the world of mechanical force the series are complete calculable and demonstrative Or if we penetrate to the rational element of all force intelligent will we should say that its selfimposed mode of activity in the mechanical world is one producing series which are complete calculable demonstrative But obvi ously other modes of activity are possible and proba ble to intelligent will When acting in the organicAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preser