 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 páginas
...accepting the main doctrines of the ' Origin of Species ' with as little reflection, and it may be with as little justification, as so many of our contemporaries,...is criticism. It tells us that to whatever doctrine claims our assent we should reply, Take it if you can compel it. The struggle for existence holds as... | |
 | 1908 - 730 páginas
...accepting the main doctrines of the Origin of Species with as little reflection, and it may be with as little justification, as so many of our contemporaries, twenty years ago, rejected them." What Huxley foresaw more than a quarter of a century ago has been amply fulfilled in recent years.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1881 - 372 páginas
...accepting the main doctrines of the " Origin of Species," with as little reflection, and it may be with as little justification, as so many of our contemporaries,...scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. Now the essence of the scientific... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 774 páginas
...accepting the main doctrines of the ' Origin of Species ' with as little reflection, and it may be with as little justification, as so many of our contemporaries,...rejected them. Against any such a consummation let ns all devoutly pray; for the scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally-held... | |
 | John Michels - 1880 - 364 páginas
...accepting the main doctrines of the Origin of Species with as little reflection, and it may be with as little justification, as so many of our contemporaries,...the essence of the scientific spirit is criticism. I1 tells us that to whatever doctrine claiming our assent, we should reply, take it if you can compel... | |
 | 1885 - 820 páginas
...accepting the main doctrines of the Origin of Species, with as little reflection, and it may be with as little justification, as so many of our contemporaries twenty years ago rejected them." ' Does it not seem as if the reign of superstition had already begun in the case of those who, in the... | |
 | 1886 - 244 páginas
...danger of accepting the main doctrines of the origin of species with as little reflection, and it may be as little justification, as so many of our contemporaries, twenty years ago, rejected them." Let such timid souls reassure themselves. It is no longer considered an evidence of scientific vision... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 504 páginas
...accepting the main doctrines of the " Origin of Species," with as little reflection, and it may be with as little justification, as so many of our contemporaries,...scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. Now the essence of the scientific... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 590 páginas
...consummation, he declared, must be prevented by unflinching criticism, the essence of the scientific spirit, " for the scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors." What, then, were the facts which... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 584 páginas
...consummation, he declared, must be prevented by unflinching criticism, the essence of the scientific spirit, " for the scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors." What, then, were the facts which... | |
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... superstitions ; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that, in another twenty years, the new generation, educated under the influences of the present day, will be in danger of accepting the main doctrines of the 
