ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1981.
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

13,5 x 22 cm, 310 strana.

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I cannot think that `natural selection,` working upon small, fortuitous, indefinite, unintelligent variations, would produce the results we see around us. One wants something that will give a more definite aim to variations, and hence, at times, cause bolder leaps in advance. One cannot but doubt whether so many plants and animals would be being so continually saved `by the skin of their teeth`... -from `Lamarck and Mr. Darwin` George Bernard Shaw called him `the greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century.` Samuel Butler, the son of an Anglican clergyman who grew up to be one of the most prominent freethinkers of the Victorian era, was a vocal apologist for theism, and his Life and Habit, published in 1877, is a beautifully written critique of Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection, one that laments its lack of call for a creative mind behind the evolution of life. This is a vital work for appreciating Butler`s other criticisms of scientific rationalism, including his 1879 book Evolution, Old and New, as well as the evolution of the concept of evolution itself. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Butler`s God the Known and God the Unknown. British author SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902) is best known for his satire Erehwon.

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