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In the distant
future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation,
that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light
will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. |
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Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian
system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity; for the manner in which all organic beings are grouped, shows that the greater number of species
in in 1869 1872 | of 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
each genus, and all the species
in in 1869 1872 | of 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
many genera, have left no descendants, but have become utterly extinct. We can so far take a prophetic glance into futurity as to foretel
that it will be the common and widely-spread species, belonging to the larger and dominant groups,
which
will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian
epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of
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In the
distant distant 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 | distant 1872 |
future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be
based on a new foundation, based on a new foundation, 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
securely based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, 1872 |
that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.
Light Light 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 | Much light 1872 |
will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. |
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Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the
Silurian Silurian 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 | Cambrian 1872 |
system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity; for the manner in which all organic beings are grouped, shows that the greater number of species
of of 1859 1860 1861 1866 | in 1869 1872 |
each genus, and all the species
of of 1859 1860 1861 1866 | in 1869 1872 |
many genera, have left no descendants, but have become utterly extinct. We can so far take a prophetic glance into futurity as to
foretell foretell 1861 1866 1869 1872 | foretel 1859 1860 |
that it will be the common and widely-spread species, belonging to the larger and dominant
groups groups 1861 1866 1869 1872 | groups, 1859 1860 |
within each class, which within each class, which 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
which 1859 1860 |
will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the
Silurian Silurian 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 | Cambrian 1872 |
epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of
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