 | Charles Darwin - 1902 - 238 頁
...intentionally and specially guided. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief "that variation has been led along certain...beginning of all time preordained, then that plasticity of organization, which leads to many injurious deviations of structure, as well as the redundant power... | |
 | John Lord - 1902 - 528 頁
...guided. Darwin, therefore, was unable to follow the distinguished botanist, Prof. Asa Gray, in his belief that " variation has been led along certain..." along definite and useful lines of irrigation." Darwin's conclusion was that, if we assume that each particular variation was from the beginning of... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1926 - 356 頁
...would appear insuperable. Thus, there is the conclusion of ' Plants and Animals Under Domestication': 'If we assume that each particular variation was from...beginning of all time preordained, then that plasticity of organization, which leads to many injurious deviations of structure, as well as the redundant power... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith - 1985 - 757 頁
...with the following lines: However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief 'that variation has been led along certain...variation was from the beginning of all time preordained, the plasticity of organisation, which leads to many injurious deviations of structure, as well as that... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers - 1986 - 538 頁
...said his definitive word: "However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief 'that variation has been led along certain...like a stream 'along definite and useful lines of irrigation.'"14 Much as Gray may have later wished to back off from the beneficent stream of variations,... | |
 | Angelique Richardson - 2003 - 284 頁
...intentionally and specially guided. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief that 'variation has been led along certain...like a stream 'along definite and useful lines of irrigation'.79 In the Origin, Darwin had examined the influence of changing living conditions, and... | |
 | Denis Alexander - 2003 - 518 頁
...no clear idea as to the source of variation in animals and plants, Gray proposed that 'variation had been led along certain beneficial lines' like a stream 'along definite and useful lines of irrigation', and that 'in each variation lies hidden the mystery of a beginning . Not surprisingly, such a 'God-ofthe-gaps'... | |
 | William Sweet, Richard Feist - 2007 - 260 頁
...resolution, employing his Divine foresight argument. The final sentences of this scientific work are: If we assume that each particular variation was from...beginning of all time preordained, then that plasticity of organization, which leads to many injurious deviations of structure, as well as the redundant power... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1883 - 724 頁
...intentionally and specially designed. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Prof. Asa Gray in his belief ' that variation has been led along certain...'along definite and useful lines of irrigation.'" ' I could give a number of other quotations to the same general effect from the writings of Mr. Darwin,... | |
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However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief that " variation has been led along certain beneficial lines," like a stream "along definite and useful lines of irrigation. 
