 | Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1894 - 284 str.
...generation (or production) of the germs of things, but he who asserts this subverts Nature herself, for Nature produces those things which, being continually...principle contained in themselves, arrive at a certain end. 1 Compare Darwin : " I have spoken of variations sometimes as if they were due to chance. This... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1897 - 312 str.
...accidental generation of the germs of things, but he who asserts .this subverts Nature herself, for Nature produces those things which, being continually...principle contained in themselves, arrive at a certain end." In the eagerness of theologians to discover proof of a belief in one God among the old philosophers,... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1899 - 246 str.
...suggestion that adaptive structures could be the result of the elimination of the unfit, and believed that " nature produces those things which, being continually...principle contained in themselves, arrive at a certain end ". He expounded the doctrine of a " perfecting principle" or "physical formal cause" which struggled... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1899 - 434 str.
...suggestion that adaptive structures could be the result of the elimination of the unfit, and believed that " nature produces those things which, being continually...principle contained in themselves, arrive at a certain end ". He expounded the doctrine of a " perfecting principle" or "physical formal cause" which struggled... | |
 | A.C. SEWARD - 1909 - 800 str.
...the resistance of matter to form that Nature can only rise by degrees from lower to higher types." " Nature produces those things which, being continually...principle contained in themselves, arrive at a certain end." To discern the outcrop of evolution-doctrine in the long interval between Aristotle and Bacon... | |
 | Ronald Campbell Macfie - 1912 - 320 str.
...of the germs of things ; but he who asserts this subverts Nature herself, for Nature produces these things which, being continually moved by a certain...principle contained in themselves, arrive at a certain end." This was a modified form of teleology. But it was left to Plato to suggest Idea (isia) as the... | |
 | Dwight Goddard - 1918 - 288 str.
...of life forms is like that of the stars: their origin and evolution as revealed through paleontology go to prove that Aristotle was essentially right when...continually moved by a certain principle contained within themselves, arrive at a certain end.' What this internal moving principle is, remains to be... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess - 1918 - 910 str.
...order is immanent in the cosmic process itself. In this sense the author quotes Aristotle approvingly: "Nature produces those things which, being continually...principle contained in themselves, arrive at a certain end" (p. 9). While the author's theory, therefore, is that of chemism and mechanism, it is not materialism... | |
 | 1918 - 840 str.
...or of chance, the author unhesitatingly affirms that Aristotle was essentially right in the dictum : "Nature produces those things which, being continually...principle contained in themselves, arrive at a certain end." After elaborate studies demonstrating that some kind of energy or work precedes some kind of... | |
 | 1921 - 412 str.
...law has been the opinion of another school of natural philosophers, headed by Aristotle. . . ." The question "of law versus chance, in the evolution of...continually moved by a certain principle contained within themselves, arrive at a certain end'" (pages 8-9). As to this guiding power of "Nature", there... | |
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Nature produces those things which, being continually moved by a certain principle contained in themselves, arrive at a certain end."2 What this internal moving principle is remains to be discovered. 
