Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this tendency toward a yet truer theory of evolution was mainly stopped, but the old crude view remained...


A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (ed. Transaction Publishers, 2012) - ISBN: 9781412849128

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Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from...

Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from...

Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from...

Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from...