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Essay: Natural selection & natural theology

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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…

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  • … special creation of man, however it may have been with the lower animals and with plants. No …
  • … strongly suggest the evolution of the human no less than the lower animal races out of some simple …
  • … some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited.’ But, as …
  • … of flint, evidently wrought by human skill, are found in beds of the drift at Amiens (also in other …
  • … evidence carries back the existence of many of the present lower species of animals, and probably of …
  • … little change down to our days are the marine animals of the lower grades, especially mollusca. …
  • … kingdom can be traced back farther than the rest, yet the lower  classes  long preceded the higher …
  • … these broad differences vanish one by one as we approach the lower confines of the two kingdoms, and …
  • … like the spores and other reproductive bodies of many of the lower Algae, may equally claim to have …
  • … both kingdoms, while it exhibits close approximations in the lower forms; also in a common or …
  • … graduates into the higher sensitiveness of the lower class of animals. Nor need we hesitate to …
  • … propagation, by budding or offshoots, extends through the lower grades of animals. In both kingdoms …
  • … is, so to say, striven after, but never attained; in the lower animals it is striven after with …
  • … most perfect of optical instruments, as so produced in the lower animals and perfected in the higher …
  • … order that it may support its present occupants, that even beds of coal have been stored up for man …
  • … the common sort of fowl. As to the objection that the lower forms of life ought, on Darwin’s …
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