An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr. Darwin (1872) (14782229815)

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Title: An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr. Darwin
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 Evolution
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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n such statements are made from the presi-dential chair of one of the greatest scientific societiesin the world, we may well enquire if modern naturalscience has any basis at all, or whether we have notbeconie the deceived dupes of a system which has themost improbable and the most unprovable dogmas asthe groundwork of its faith. Straining after the im-possible, we have entered into an age of speculativephilosophy which bids fair to destroy all that is grandand noble in our conceptions of Nature, and to lead usinto the cold unimpassioned region of scepticism. Tomock all sense of the beautiful with the derisive laughof materialism—to check the aspirations of refinedmental culture by the assumption of theories whichare revolting to. our better nature—to destroy uponunsound grounds the faith which every man of realnobility of intellect has, and always will have, in theever-present mind and thought and hand of theCreator in Creation—to replace a final cause with a Plate in. Fig. 14.
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MACACTJS IJNUUS. The Gibraltar Baboon and its Skull. THE TRUE. 329 self-acting secondary law—to substitute chance fordesign, and to patch up a destroyed faith by attempt-ing to reconcile truth and falsehood—when things havecome to such a pass as this, the strongest mind mighttremble for the fate of science itself, were it not con-fident in the ultimate triumph of the true. 330 FALLACIES OF DARWLNLSM. CHAPTEK XXV. THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT. The Eye.—Its adaptation to different media.—Eye of Birds.—TheMoveable Bony Orbit of Birds.—The Golden Eagle.—The Owl—TheSwan.—The Marsupiiim, a structure peculiar to the Eyes of Birds.—Its supposed use.—Professor Owens View.—Impossibility of such astructure being formed by Natural Selection.—Least Action shownin the folding of the Marsupium.—Professor Haughtons Questions. Although many instances have been already adducedof insuperable difficulties in the Darwinian hypothesispresented by the fore-ordained adaptation of str