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... appear to be unduly devoted to specu- lation - hypothesis - to support which he cannot pro- duce the facts themselves but merely the imperfect substitutes afforded by pictures . It is perhaps not altogether a matter for regret that ...
... appear to be unduly devoted to specu- lation - hypothesis - to support which he cannot pro- duce the facts themselves but merely the imperfect substitutes afforded by pictures . It is perhaps not altogether a matter for regret that ...
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... appear- ance has to be accounted for : the question in both cases is , " Through what cause , in relation to what antecedent is this appearance brought about ? " In scientific inquiry , as in everyday life , a hypothesis— a provisional ...
... appear- ance has to be accounted for : the question in both cases is , " Through what cause , in relation to what antecedent is this appearance brought about ? " In scientific inquiry , as in everyday life , a hypothesis— a provisional ...
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... guesses which occasion- ally appear in the history of science , was given to the science of biology by the imaginative insight of that greatest of living naturalists - I would of living men I 9 A CHAPTER IN DARWINISM.
... guesses which occasion- ally appear in the history of science , was given to the science of biology by the imaginative insight of that greatest of living naturalists - I would of living men I 9 A CHAPTER IN DARWINISM.
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... appear to believe . We have one great help in the carefully worked - out systematic classification of animals and plants according to their structure . We are justified in assuming as a general law that animals or plants of like ...
... appear to believe . We have one great help in the carefully worked - out systematic classification of animals and plants according to their structure . We are justified in assuming as a general law that animals or plants of like ...
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... appear in the growth of a young organism in the order in which those characteristics have been acquired by its ancestors . At first the egg of a dog represents ( imperfectly , it is true ) in form and structure the earliest ancestors of ...
... appear in the growth of a young organism in the order in which those characteristics have been acquired by its ancestors . At first the egg of a dog represents ( imperfectly , it is true ) in form and structure the earliest ancestors of ...
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