...356; lettre do 1873. — Nous reprendrons la question au ch. vin. t. I, 363; Autobiog. de 1876. 3. « But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far asthis — we can perçoive that eventsare brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine...

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...belief in the separate creation of species generally held by naturalists, until a recent period. I " But with regard to the material world, we can at least...particular case, but by the establishment of general lav, s." WHEWELL: Bridgeieater Treatise. " The only distinct meaning of the word ' natural ' is slated,...

...over the course of events." (p. 225) In another passage, Whewell states: "with regard to the physical world, we can at least go so far as this; - we can...particular case, but by the establishment of general laws." (p. 267) This statement is especially significant because Whewell was later to encounter it, probably...

...him as an undergraduate, and the following quotations at the beginning of O71 the Origin of Species: But with regard to the material world, we can at least...particular case, but by the establishment of general laws. (Whewell: Bridgewater Treatise) The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or...

...shown to be. In the quotation Darwin had selected to introduce the Origin of Species, Whewell urges, "But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this—we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interposition of Divine power,...

...religion. Darwin himself prefaced his Origin by a quotation from William Whewell's Bridgewaler Treatise: "But with regard to the material world, we can at...particular case, but by the establishment of general laws."39) Many religious people, however, were very reluctant to accept this view of Divine action....

...Reference to Natural Theology (1836). Darwin, in fact, quotes Whewell, in an epigraph to the Origin: "But with regard to the material world, we can at...particular case, but by the establishment of general laws" (p. 50). The quotation suggests that Whewell shared with Darwin a commitment to the scientific project,...

...Species, 72, 122. His (particularly apposite) quotation from Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise reads: "But with regard to the material world, we can at...particular case, but by the establishment of general laws." Toward the end of the nineteenth century, according to the OED, the scientific use of singular penetrates...