The guillotine has many sins, but to do it justice there is nothingevolutionary about it.
On the evolutionary basis you may be inhumane, or you may be absurdly humane; but you cannot be human.
The favourite evolutionary argument finds its best answer in the axe.
How can I pluck up courage to take the horse out of my hansom-cab, when I do not know whether my evolutionary watch is only a little fast or the cabman's a little slow?
This principle that all creation and procreation is a breaking off is at least as consistent through the cosmos as the evolutionary principle that all growth is a branching out.
They are well-nigh hopelessly ignorant of the significance, or even the existence, of the great basic truths of evolutionary life.
Let us apply this evolutionary law to agriculture and its people, as being in the transition stage, during the past forty years.
Yet, I must confess, that judging from the masterly system of road-building inaugurated by Solaris and Fenwick, the evolutionary results which you so confidently predict, are both reasonable and logical.
The logic of this deduction, is beyond dispute; because they are direct attempts to thwart the progressive and evolutionary purpose of the planet; therefore, they must be considered as sins of the first magnitude.
It would need a volume to follow thoroughly the argument of this epoch-making book, to which I have here written only an introduction, calling attention to its evolutionary factors, historical and spiritual.
These were the gods which had but too literally created, by the slow evolutionaryforce of human sacrifices, the new revolutionary priesthood.
That his Religion of Humanity took the deistical form was an evolutionary necessity.
The evolutionary edifice is based on solidarity, and here environment is undoubtedly an indispensable factor in development; still, it only acts as the field or soil, and soil without seed remains barren.
It is this that science has called the evolutionary series.
Such, in general outline, is the reason for the intervention of beings in the evolutionary process.
It does mean annihilation (evolutionary transmutation of lower into higher), but only of all those forces or elements which constitute man as an animal.
And this individuality is the bearer of all evolutionary gains made in each temporary personality through which it reflects itself: it is the permanent evolving principle.
This, making use of the germ-plasm merely as a physical basis for its manifestation, begins to build up a body suited to its further evolutionary needs.
In relation to our personal consciousness, apparently our greatest powers lie in the subconsciousness which is sleeping and in embryo, awaiting to be born into the consciousness of this world through the slow process of evolutionary gestation.
In the case of a Buddha, who on good historical authority is said to have been able to recall all past existences from the lowest to the highest, this evolutionary process seems to have reached completion.
The theory of Charles Darwin suggests that all evolutionary progress is directed to the acquirement of newer and ever higher instincts.
Irwin (1953) used similar techniques in his study of the evolutionary patterns of some antigenic substances of the blood cells of birds of the Family Columbidae.
Evolutionary patterns of antigenic substances of the blood corpuscles in Columbidae.
Differences in patterns of jaw-musculature are, however, functional adaptations and like the bill, which is also associated with food-getting may be subject to rapid evolutionary change.
He can understand why it arose in the olden days, with its supernaturalism and juridical ethics, yet he feels that this absolutism is a product of monarchism and pre-evolutionary thinking.
The new outlook was set in the place of the old myths; but the details of the evolutionary process required careful working out by patient experiments and observations.
As the individual views of an evolutionist, these are interesting and even valuable, but they can hardly be regarded as established principles of the science of evolutionary ethics.
They also bear marks of a very lengthened evolutionary process, and thus confirm the natural idea of a halt of portentous length at the threshold of the present haven of comparative social rest.
Upon its evolutionary or dynamic side sociology may be considered a sort of philosophy of history; at least it attempts to give a scientific theory which will explain the social changes which history describes concretely.
Secondly, the so-called evolutionary theory that the human family life arose from confused if not promiscuous sex relations.
All science is now evolutionary in spirit and in method and believes that things cannot be understood except as they are understood in their genesis and development.
Whether Socrates got as much happiness out of life as Wesley is an unanswerable question; but a nation of Socrateses would be much safer and happier than a nation of Wesleys; and its individuals would be higher in the evolutionary scale.
When you did that, naturally the analytical mind, the higher thought centers of a more recent evolutionary development, blanked out and the primal mind took over.
All of man's evolutionary struggle, and the women had assumed the climax, assumed all the past wrapped up in the end, usurped the effect, and thereby psychologically assuming also all the thousands of years of causation.
This probably refers to Mr. Huxley's discussion on "Natural Classification," a subject hardly susceptible of fruitful treatment except from an evolutionary standpoint.
De Maillet's evolutionary views were published after his death in 1748 under the name of Telliamed (De Maillet spelt backwards).
Kaliyuga, the last of the four ages in which the evolutionary period of man is divided.
The ocean does not divide into its potential and constituent drops until the sweep of the life-impulse reaches the evolutionary stage of man-birth.
Three stages in the elemental side; the mineral kingdom; three stages in the objective physical side--these are the seven links of the evolutionary chain.
Otherwise, how could one account for and explain mathematically the evolutionary and spiral progress of the four kingdoms?
The above diagram represents a logical section of the scheme of evolution, and not the evolutionary history of a unit of consciousness.
I believe that we are now ready for a long evolutionary jump, but not so far forward as some of our Socialist brethren would like to jump.
I am opposed to Socialism because I believe that it attempts to do by legislative enactment, what must come through an evolutionary process.
Inspired no doubt by the general trend of evolutionary thought in his day, Morgan converted the logical connection into an historical sequence and assumed the priority of the simpler system.
In many localities the arbutus sets no fruit, for it is still undergoing evolutionary changes looking toward the perfecting of an elaborate system to insure cross-fertilization.
It was a long stride forward in the evolutionary scale when the harebell welded its five once separate petals together; first at the base, then farther and farther up the sides, until a solid bell-shaped structure resulted.
As might be expected, a plant which has not yet ascended the evolutionary scale high enough to economize its pollen by making insects carry it invariably, overtops surrounding vegetation to take advantage of every breeze that blows.
Distressing as this may appear to many, it is no more than an inherent feature of the evolutionary process.
The one defines goals that serve the evolutionary process; the other assists in their attainment.
It has passed through evolutionary stages from the lowest to the highest.
Can the law connecting speed of motion and spectral type be so general that the planetary nebula is to be regarded as the final evolutionary stage?
With fatal persistence the fundamental error of his system delayed the evolutionary life of the science through all that period.
Is it not early yet to say, either that any one of them must be abandoned as totally wrong, or on the other hand that any one of them, or indeed any single hypothesis, can explain all the evolutionary processes of the universe?
The abandonment of reliance upon a Jesus who has not changed in nineteen hundred years, in favor of an Evolutionary philosophy that requires constant change, leads to a new conception of the world and its possibilities for man.
A dead personality remains unchanged; live ethical principles can be developed by more complete knowledge of evolutionary processes.
Baiomys seems to have undergone little basic evolutionary and morphological change since Late Pliocene time.
A taxonomic and evolutionary study of the pinon mouse, Peromyscus truei.
Through whatever forms this evolutionary process may pass in its logical development, this much is certain, that only by active thought on the part of Socialists and by the loyal co-operation of the workers can it be brought to its perfection.
I know that the members of the bloc are, like me, the result of evolutionary forces now spent.
My hostility to the bloc is beyond my control, an evolutionary force gathering way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evolutionary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
