Mivart sentence example
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- It is, Mivart remarks, a survival of a very ancient state of things.
- St George Mivart, in The Ground-work of Science (1898), maintained the reality of an active causative power underlying Nature, and the dignity of human reason, from an independent point of view.
- The first three were regarded by St George Mivart as local races of the northern lynx.
- The view maintained by a distinguished comparative anatomist, Professor St George Mivart, in his Genesis of Species, ch.
- St George Mivart (Genesis of Species) propounded a theory of a natural evolution of man as to his body, combined with a supernatural creation as to his soul; but this attempt to meet the difficulties on both sides seems to have satisfied neither.Advertisement
- Of these, the former endeavours to explain the most elaborate psychical activities of men as developments of elementary forms of conscious processes in the animal kingdom as a whole; the latter is a defence of the theory of natural selection against the attacks of St George Mivart, and appeared in an English edition on the suggestion of Darwin.