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" A superior intelligence has guided the development of man in a definite direction and for a special purpose, just as man guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms... "
The Action of Natural Selection on Man - Page 51
by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 54 pages
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 34

American essays - 1874 - 792 pages
...calls influx from the spiritual world. My present views on that subject are given in a recent work: — development of man in a definite direction and for...the development of many animal and vegetable forms." lie does uot regard the human will as "but one link fa the chain of events," and concludes : " If we...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 15

Great Britain - 1870 - 688 pages
...development of the moral sense or conscience in savage man. Summarizing the whole, Mr. Wallace writes : — " The inference I would draw from this class of phenomena...development of many animal and vegetable forms." " The great laws which govern the material universe were insufficient for man's production, unless wo consider...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

Geology - 1870 - 500 pages
...chemistry, but above nature ; and he says that the inference which he draws from the facts reviewed is that " a superior intelligence has guided the development...the development of many animal and vegetable forms." He also argues that " all force is probably will-force ; " and thus, that " the whole universe is not...
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Essays on Darwinism

Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing - Evolution - 1871 - 232 pages
...and voice which he thinks would be useless, to uncultivated human beings. The inference he draws ' from this class of phenomena is, that a superior intelligence...the development of many animal and vegetable forms/ In this illustration he overlooks the circumstance that man's selection is after all nothing more nor...
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More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism

Thomas Henry Huxley - Education - 1872 - 122 pages
...which has been concerned in the evolution of ordinary animals, has been operative in the case of man. " A superior intelligence has guided the development...the development of many animal and vegetable forms." * I understand this to mean that, just as the rock-pigeon has been produced by natural causes, while...
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The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and ..., Volume 2

Anthropology - 1873 - 544 pages
...substances. Mr. Wallace himself is so much struck with the imposing position occupied by man that he thinks that " a superior intelligence has guided the development...development of many animal and vegetable forms."!! He supposes, moreover, that " the whole universe is not merely dependent on, but. actually is, the...
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Critiques and Addresses

Thomas Henry Huxley - Literary Criticism - 1873 - 342 pages
...which has been concerned in the evolution of ordinary animals, has been operative in the case of man. " A superior intelligence has guided the development...the development of many animal and vegetable forms/' l I understand this to mean that, just as the rock-pigeon has been produced by natural causes, while...
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Critiques and Addresses

Thomas Henry Huxley - Literary Criticism - 1873 - 428 pages
...which has been concerned in the evolution of ordinary animals, has been operative in the case of man. "A superior intelligence has guided the development...the development of many animal and vegetable forms." 1 I understand this to mean that, just as the rock-pigeon has been produced by natural causes, while...
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Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by Evolution

George St. Clair - Evolution - 1873 - 280 pages
...sense, &c., and draws the inference that a superior intelligence has guided the course of variation in a definite direction, and for a special purpose,...the development of many animal and vegetable forms. He reminds us that man's intelligence has been concerned in the production of wheat and maize, of such...
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Turning Points in Life

Frederick Arnold - Conduct of life - 1873 - 384 pages
...directed the process : " A supe' rior intelligence has guided the development of man in a defi' nite direction and for a special purpose, just as man guides...the development of many animal and vegetable forms." What is true of nature is also true of history. The great idea of the education of the world, suggested...
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