 | Geology - 1861 - 746 pages
...justification of the theoretical views which it contains. On the contrary, if they were disproved tomorrow, tho book would still be the best of its kind, the most...report and intrinsic evidence are to be relied upon, the author of the above criticism is no less a person than our distinguished Secretary, Professor Huxley.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 444 pages
...work depends wholly on the ultimate justification of the theoretical views which it contains. On the contrary, if they were disproved to-morrow, the book...on the doctrine of species that has ever appeared. The chapters on Variation, on the Struggle for Existence, on Instinct, on Hybridism, on the Imperfection... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 pages
...Francesco Redi, of the seventeenth * ' If they [the theoretical views of the ' Origin of Species '] were disproved to-morrow, the book would still be...on the doctrine of species that has ever appeared.' — Huxley's Lay Sermons, $c., p. 327. •f See two admirable papers in Fraser's Magazine, June and... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - Bible and science - 1872 - 352 pages
...* ' If they [the theoretical views of the ' Origin of Species '] were disproved to-morrow, the hook would still be the best of its kind — the most compendious...on the doctrine of species that has ever appeared.' — Huxley's Lay Sermons. Ac., p. 327. + See two admirable papers in Fraser's Magazine, June and July... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1880 - 408 pages
...work depends wholly on the ultimate justification of the theoretical views which it contains. On the contrary, if they were disproved to-morrow, the book would still be the best of its kind—the most compendious statement of well-sifted facts bearing on the doctrine of species that... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1894 - 504 pages
...work depends wholly on the ultimate justification of the theoretical views which it contains; On the contrary, if they were disproved to-morrow, the book...on the doctrine of species that has ever appeared. The chapters on Variation, on the Struggle for Existence, on Instinct, on Hybridism, on the Imperfection... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - Faith - 1899 - 210 pages
...natural. This, however, did not in his judgment detract from the value of Darwin's work as being " the most compendious statement of well-sifted facts bearing on the doctrine of evolution that had ever appeared." Again, eighteen years later he confessed that it was still doubtful... | |
 | Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell - Biologists - 1900 - 344 pages
...work depends wholly on the ultimate justification of the theoretical views which it contains. On the contrary, if they were disproved to-morrow, the book...on the doctrine of species that has ever appeared. The chapters on variation, on the struggle for existence, on instinct, on hybridism, on the imperfection... | |
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We should leave a very wrong impression on the reader's mind if we permitted him to suppose that the value of that work depends wholly on the ultimate justification of the theoretical views which it contains. On the contrary, if they were disproved to-morrow,... 