Download or read book The System of Animate Nature The concept of evolution written by John Arthur Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The System of Animate Nature written by John Arthur Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The aim of this study of Animate Nature is to state the general results of biological inquiry which must be taken account of if we are to think of organic Nature as a whole and in relation to the rest of our experience. Both among careful thinkers and careless passers-by views of organic Nature are held, in regard, for instance, to the organism as mechanism, the determinism of heredity, the struggle for existence, which seem to the author to be lacking in accuracy or in adequacy, which therefore tend to involve unnecessary difficulties in systematisation and perhaps gratuitous confusion in conduct. It has been declared by some that the world of life is "a dismal cockpit", that in the behaviour of living creatures mind is a negligible quantity, that the study of heredity must leave us fatalistic, and that evolution is largely "a chapter of accidents". Such views engender what may be called natural irreligion, and it is the object of this course to show that such views are scientifically untenable. Nature doubtless presents many puzzling features, but care must be taken to make sure that what seem to be unconformabilities are not due to the inadequacy of our knowledge. While trying to keep wishes from fathering thoughts, we have been led in our study to see that the general results of Biology, when stated with accuracy, are not out of line with transcendental conclusions reached along other paths--conclusions which different minds express in different forms. It looks as if Nature were much more conformable than is often supposed to religious interpretation, but we have not seen it to be our duty to justify the ways of God to man. We have tried to keep as close as possible to the facts of the case, leaving philosophical and religious inferences for those who are better qualified to draw them. Our endeavour to present the scientific view of Animate Nature has often led only to a disappointing balancing of alternative formulations, for science abounds in open questions; it has also involved considerable noise of facts throughout the lectures, for there is no other way of getting beyond mere opinions. But it will be understood that the appeal to facts is not exactly for their own sake, as in a course of lectures on descriptive Biology, but as a basis for those distinctive biological and psycho-biological concepts of organism, behaviour, development, heredity, evolution, and so on, which must be included in a philosophical view of Nature"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
Download or read book A Study of Animate Nature Part II The Evolution of the Realm of Organisms written by John Arthur Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1916* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The System of Animate Nature The realm of organisms as it is The unfathomed universe and the aim of science written by John Arthur Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The System of Animate Nature Vol 2 of 2 written by J. Arthur Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The System of Animate Nature, Vol. 2 of 2: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Years 1915 and 1916 In the realm of organisms let us use the word development for the individual's becoming, for its ontogeny, for the expres sion of the inheritance amid appropriate nurture. Let us keep the word evolution for the phylogeny of the race as distinguished from the ontogeny of the individual. Then let us keep the word history tor the human King dom of ends, where social persons are the new actualities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The System of Animate Nature V2 The Gifford Lectures 1915 1916 1920 written by J. Arthur Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The System of Animate Nature the Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St Andrews in the Years 1915 And 1916 written by Sir John Arthur Thomson and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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