Lectures Evolution Exploring Hypotheses by Huxley Thomas (4 results)

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - We live in and form part of a system of things of immense diversityand perplexity, which we call Nature; and it is a matter of thedeepest interest to all of us that we should form just conceptions ofthe constitution of that system and of its past history. With relationto this universe, man is, in extent, little more than a mathematicalpoint; in duration but a fleeting shadow; he is a mere reed shakenin the winds of force. But as Pascal long ago remarked, although amere reed, he is a thinking reed; and in virtue of that wonderfulcapacity of thought, he has the power of framing for himself asymbolic conception of the universe, which, although doubtlesshighly imperfect and inadequate as a picture of the great whole, isyet sufficient to serve him as a chart for the guidance of hispractical affairs. It has taken long ages of toilsome and oftenfruitless labour to enable man to look steadily at the shifting scenesof the phantasmagoria of Nature, to notice what is fixed among herfluctuations, and what is regular among her apparent irregularities;and it is only comparatively lately, within the last few centuriesthat the conception of a universal order and of a definite course ofthings, which we term the course of Nature, has emerged.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Lectures on Evolution | Exploring the Hypotheses of Nature's History: Eternity, Creation, and Evolution | Thomas Henry Huxley | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2024 | Culturea | EAN 9791041985180 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …