 varieties arise irrespectively of the notion of purpose, or of utility, according to general laws of Nature, and may be either useful, or hurtful, or indifferent." On the contrary, Mr. Darwin writes (Summary of Chap. V.) :— " Our ignorance of the laws...  Collected Essays: Darwiniana - Page 87by Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Melvin Bolton - Science - 2001 - 312 pages
...hadn'ta clue how the differences could arise or be passed on to offspring. As he admitted in The Origin: ‘Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part differs, more or less,... | |
 | Leslie Alan Horvitz - Science - 2001 - 356 pages
...one to the other. All the same, Darwin didn't underestimate the difficulties that he was up against: "Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part has varied." Fundamental... | |
 | Hans Schwarz - Religion - 2002 - 270 pages
...presuppositions connected with it.' When Charles Darwin introdu¿d his theory of descent, he already warned: “Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Not in one case out of a hundred can we preassid to assign any reason why this or that part differs, more or less,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Fiction - 2004 - 590 pages
...lived, but had been created in stone so as to mock the shells now living on the sea-shore. Summary Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part differs, more or less,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1876 - 1204 pages
...become plastic, and tends to depart in some small degree from that of the parental tpye." (P. 12.) " Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part differs, more or less,... | |
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