 ... accept the undulatory theory of light, subject to the proof of the existence of the hypothetical ether ; or as the chemist adopts the atomic theory, subject to the proof of the existence of atoms ; and for exactly the same reasons, namely, that it...  The Natural History Review - Page 3831868Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Apes - 1863 - 204 pages
...and for exactly the same reasons, namely, that it has an immense amount of prima facie probability : that it is the only means at present within reach...study of embryology. But even leaving Mr. Darwin's vieVs aside, the whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument... | |
 | Anthropology - 1863 - 584 pages
...and for exactly the same reasons, namely, that it has an immense amount of prima facie probability : that it is the only means at present within reach...commencement of the systematic study of embryology." The following note appears at p. 109. " It is so rare a pleasure for me to find Professor Owen's opinions... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1907 - 774 pages
...against attacks dictated by ignorance and prejudice, nor from treating the Darwinian hypothesis as " the most powerful instrument of investigation which...commencement of the systematic study of embryology." It is probable that we here touch upon one of Huxley's limitations. Unrivalled as he was in many departments... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Apes - 1873 - 204 pages
...and for exactly the same reasons, namely, that it has an immense amount of prima facie probability : that it is the only means at present within reach...embryology. But even leaving Mr. Darwin's views aside, the whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1873 - 194 pages
...and for exactly the same reasons, namely, that it has an immense amount of prima facie probability: that it is the only means at present within reach...embryology. But even leaving Mr. Darwin's views aside, the whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Automatism - 1886 - 354 pages
...exactly the same reasons, namely, that it has an immense amount of prima facie probability : thtit it is the only means at present within reach of reducing...order ; and, lastly, that it is the most powerful insliument of investigation which has been presented to naturalists since the invention of the natural... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Automatism - 1886 - 350 pages
...reducing the chaos of observed facts to order; and, lastly, that it is the most powerful instiument of investigation which has been presented to naturalists...classification and the commencement of the systematic btudy of embryology. Hut tven leaving Mr. Darwin's views aside, the whole analogy of natural operations... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1874 - 366 pages
...and for exactly the same reasons, namely, that it has an immense amount of prima facie probability: that it is the only means at present within reach...embryology. But even leaving Mr. Darwin's views aside, the whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Evolution - 1896 - 352 pages
...languish and die ; succeeding, must advance, and contribute also to general advance. Natural selection ' is the only means at present within reach of reducing the chaos of observed facts to order ' ; and ' it is the most powerful instrument of investigation which has been presented to the naturalist since... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Anthropology - 1897 - 348 pages
...and for exactly the same reasons, namely, that it has an immense amount of prima facie probability : that it is the only means at present within reach...reducing the chaos of observed facts to order; and lastly,that it is the most powerful instrument of investigation which has been presented to naturalists... | |
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