Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political SocietyC. K. Paul & Company, 1881 - 224 pagini |
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... give a richness and a truth - like complexity to the picture which he paints , even in cases where the particular detail they tell is not much . But what here concerns me is that man himself has , to the eye of science , become ' an ...
... give a richness and a truth - like complexity to the picture which he paints , even in cases where the particular detail they tell is not much . But what here concerns me is that man himself has , to the eye of science , become ' an ...
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... give us an accurate conception of what we may expect , and a good account of the evidence by which we are led to expect it . Let us see what that science teaches on the subject ; and , as far as may be , I will give it in the words of ...
... give us an accurate conception of what we may expect , and a good account of the evidence by which we are led to expect it . Let us see what that science teaches on the subject ; and , as far as may be , I will give it in the words of ...
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... gives rise to actions which are as completely reflex as those of the spinal cord . ' When the eyelids wink at a flash of light , or a threatened blow , a reflex action takes place , in which the afferent nerves are the optic , the ...
... gives rise to actions which are as completely reflex as those of the spinal cord . ' When the eyelids wink at a flash of light , or a threatened blow , a reflex action takes place , in which the afferent nerves are the optic , the ...
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... gives rise to the act , whether the soldier be think- ing of it or not . There is a story , which is credible enough , though it may not be true , of a practical joker , who , seeing a discharged veteran carrying home his dinner ...
... gives rise to the act , whether the soldier be think- ing of it or not . There is a story , which is credible enough , though it may not be true , of a practical joker , who , seeing a discharged veteran carrying home his dinner ...
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... give up using good domestic animals , what has become of the wild ones which would , accord- ing to all natural laws , have sprung up out of them ? This much is certain , that the domestic animals of Europe have , since what may be ...
... give up using good domestic animals , what has become of the wild ones which would , accord- ing to all natural laws , have sprung up out of them ? This much is certain , that the domestic animals of Europe have , since what may be ...
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