 | William Whewell - 1854 - 330 halaman
...appearances of analogy and promises of fertility, which are fallacious. What can we reply to this 1 11. We reply, that to work in vain, in the sense of producing...proceedings of nature, that it is an operation which is constantly going on, in every part of nature. Of the vegetable seeds which are produced, what an... | |
 | 1854 - 604 halaman
...attending human endeavor; how shall we answer such an objection? '' We reply," says our reasoner, " that to work in vain in the sense of producing means...proceedings of nature, that it is an operation which is constantly going on in every part of nature." A single fish, it has been calculated, spawns two... | |
 | University magazine - 1854 - 788 halaman
...produce the framework, and not to build ; to make the skeleton, and not to clothe it with living ne>h ; to delude us with appearances of analogy and promises...we reply to this? " We reply, that to work in vain, ¡n the sense of produciug means of life whichfare not used, embryos which are never vivified, germs... | |
 | William Whewell - 1854 - 394 halaman
...make the skeleton, and not to clothe it with living flesh ; to delude us with appearances of anally and promises of fertility, -which are fallacious. What can we reply to this ! 11. We reply, that to work in vain, in the sense of producing means of life which are not used, embryos... | |
 | 1855 - 408 halaman
...of animation. There is, we think, a similar misconception traceable in the following passage : — ' "We reply, that to work in vain, in the sense of producing...proceedings of nature, that it is an operation which is constantly going on, in every part of nature. Of the vegetable seeds which are produced, what an... | |
 | William Whewell - 1855 - 468 halaman
...produce the framework, and not to build ; to make the skeleton, and not to clothe it with living flesh: to delude us with appearances of analogy and promises...fertility, which are fallacious. What can we reply to this? 11 We reply, that to work in vain, in the sense of producing means of life which are not used, embryos... | |
 | William Whewell - 1855 - 404 halaman
...produce the frame work, and not to build ; to make the skeleton, and not to clothe it with living flesh ; to delude us with appearances of analogy and promises...fertility, which are fallacious. What can we reply to this ? 11. We reply, that to work in vain, in the sense of producing means of life which are not used, embryos... | |
 | 1856 - 948 halaman
...build ; to make the skeleton, and not to clothe it with living flesh," &c. " We reply," he says, " that to work in vain, in the sense of producing means...proceedings of nature, that it is an operation which is constantly going on, in every part of nature. Of the vegetable seeds which are produced, what an... | |
 | 1856 - 420 halaman
...make the skeleton, and not to clothe it with living flesh," &c. " We reply," he says, " that to wprk in vain, in the sense of producing means of life which...proceedings of nature, that it is an operation which is constantly going on, in every part of nature. Of the vegetable seeds which are produced, what an... | |
 | Robert Baker White - 1873 - 366 halaman
...living things." To the objection that his theory makes nature work in vain, the writer replies : " To work in vain, in the sense of producing means of...proceedings of nature that it is an operation which is constantly going on in nature." " It is quite agreeable to analogy that the solar system, of which... | |
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We reply, that to work in vain, in the sense of producing means of life which are not used, embryos which are never vivified, germs which are not developed ; is so far from being contrary to the usual proceedings of nature, that it is an operation which... 
