The Three Barriers: Notes on Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species."

Gilbert Rorison

Blackwood, 1861 - Всего страниц: 180

Содержание

• Lamarckthe Vestiges: 7
• Artificial Selectionthe Sheep: 8
• Other domesticated animals: 9
• The Pigeon and its Varieties: 10
• NATURAL SELECTION: 11
• First factorWar: 12
• Second factorTime: 13
• Criticism of this hypothesis struggle misinterpreted Constancy of Species Function: 14
• Causes of permanent variation in a state of nature: 15
• Tendency to Divergence checked by law of Revergence: 16
• Variation not identical with Ascensive Developmentits limits: 17
• Fallacy of Progressive Accumulation: 18
• Diagnosis of SpeciesHybridism: 19
• Witness of Geology: 20
• Alleged incompleteness of the cabinet: 21
• Alleged poverty of the contents: 22
• Animal competition subordinated to the exigencies of the higher life: 23
• Antiquity of type not coincident with lowness in the scale: 24
• Geological and historical proof of persistence of type: 25
• Animal Structures and Instincts: 28
• Neither capable of being resolved into natural causes: 29
• Necessary circumscription of both: 30
• Resumé: 31
• The Darwinian Knot: 32
• 33Vera causa BaconNewton: 33
• Creative possibilities: 34
• Origin of Species a problem of the same order with Origin of Life: 35
• Claim to consistency with the teachings of Religion: 36
• Countertheory of CREATIVE ELECTIONMan the nainer of the creatures: 37
• Progress in the task: 38
• The Three Barriers: 39
• First Barrierthe Backbone: 40
• Second Barrierthe Breast: 41
• Third Barrierthe Brain: 42
• The NatureRevelation: 43
• The Type of Power: 44
• The Type of Love: 45
• The Type of Wisdom: 46
• Physical reality of the typical transitions: 47
• Natural Religion of the series: 48
• Its misperusal by Superstition: 49
• Further criteria of the general argument: 50
• Duplication of Groundplan: 51
• Correlation of Superiorities: 52
• Stages of Creative Working: 53
• Concentration of results in: 54
• Correlation of Skill and Powerthe Hand: 55
• Correlation of Maternity: 56
• Correlation of Language: 57
• Mr Darwin and Sir Charles Lyell: 58
• Essays and Reviews and Auguste Comte: 59
• Palæontology a pedestal to Revealed Religion: 60
• Equivalence of Scale to Time: 77
• Final Causes: 148

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• Название: The Three Barriers: Notes on Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species."
• Автор: Gilbert Rorison
• Издатель: Blackwood, 1861
• Владелец оригинала: Мичиганский университет
• Оцифровано: 29 июн 2007
• Количество страниц: Всего страниц: 180