 | Paul Carus - Religion - 1928 - 838 pages
...convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions...mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind ?" Darwin had no illusions about the ultimate fate of the earth and the solar system. Writing to Hooker,... | |
 | 1887 - 604 pages
...of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or are at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are convictions in such a mind ? " The Duke of Argyll, in a conversation with Mr. Darwin in the last year... | |
 | Christianity - 1888 - 438 pages
...says, in words which, however much they may irritate, must command respect for their fearlessness, " the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions...mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind ? " * No more definite statement could be made of the attitude of evolution toward the principle of... | |
 | 1888 - 950 pages
...distrusts its conclusions. " With me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of mau's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the...mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind ?" The Duke of Argyll has put on record a memorable conversation which he onco had with the great Naturalist.... | |
 | 1888 - 592 pages
...of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or are at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions...mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind '! ' In 1860 and 1861 he writes to Asa Gray as follows : — ' If anything is designed, certainly man... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1889 - 656 pages
...degree analogous to man. But, then, with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of a man's mind, which has been developed from the mind...trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there be any convictions in such a mind ?" Granted the premises, and this conclusion does not seem an unreasonable... | |
 | Apologetics - 1889 - 514 pages
...developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value, or at all trustworthy. Would anyone trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind ?" " The Duke of Argyll has recorded a few words on this subject, spoken by my father in the last year... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...look at the moon, where the law of gravitation — and no doubt of the conservation of energy — of the atomic theory, &c., &c., hold good, and I cannot...I have been accustomed to think second, third, and fourth-rate men of very high importance, at least in the case of Science. Lastly, I could show fight... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - English drama - 1893 - 280 pages
...low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions ? , . . Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's...mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind ? " It will be seen that the difficulty is twofold. In the first place, if we are compelled to recognise... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 580 pages
...look at the moon, where the law of gravitation — and no doubt of the conservation of energy — of the atomic theory, &c. &c., hold good, and I cannot...monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mir.d ? Secondly, I think that I could make somewhat of a case against the enormous importance which... | |
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But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there... 
