My dear Darwin, – I have been so repeatedly struck by the utter inability of numbers of intelligent persons to see clearly, or at all, the self-acting and necessary effects of Natural Selection, that I am led to conclude that the term itself, and your mode of illustrating it, however clear and beautiful to many of us, are yet not the best adapted to impress it on the general naturalist public. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)
For, he wrote, "I am repeatedly struck by the utter inability of numbers of intelligent persons to see clearly, or at all, the self-acting and necessary effects of Natural Selection." ❋ Unknown (2009)
A self-acting knocker gives a treble knock -- door is opened by a ❋ Unknown (2002)
Are we not ourselves creating our successors in the supremacy of the earth? daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their organisation, daily giving them greater skill and supplying more and more of that self-regulating self-acting power which will be better than any intellect? ❋ Unknown (2003)
A self-acting apparatus supplied the three travelers with air to breathe. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Revolution began in the wake of the introduction of the self-acting mule (spinning machine) and of widespread unrest because of economic hardship culminating in a general strike (1854) among textile workers. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Safeguarding the switchgear against unintentional or self-acting reclosing is an important safety measure. ❋ Werner Boschitsch (1991)
Till 1988, one prototype was realized to demonstrate the physics of the self-acting siphonic heat transfer system. ❋ Unknown (1990)
By comparison, the two automatic ( "self-acting") whipping machines patented in 1886 and 1895 for use in sweep powers appear ludricrous and harmless. ❋ Unknown (1986)
Newcomen's achievement lay in devising it in thoroughly practicable form — steam in a cylinder, fitted with a piston, is condensed, leaving a void, so that the external atmospheric pres - sure can act on the piston — and in making the engine automatic or self-acting. ❋ D. S. L. CARDWELL (1968)
This apprehension must belong either to the soul isolated, self-acting, or to soul in conjunction with some other entity. ❋ Plotinus (1952)
My universal, self-acting, double compound elixir of equestrian ointment will perform a cure in each and every case. ❋ A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton (N/A)
Besides erecting a winding engine for drawing up coal, and a pumping-engine, he projected and laid down a self-acting incline along the declivity of the Willington ballast quay, so arranged that full wagons descending to the vessels drew up the empty ones. ❋ Harry A. Lewis (N/A)
It is instinct now -- self-acting, deep, and unconscious. ❋ Various (N/A)
It is a self-acting pump of the impulse type, in which force is suddenly applied and discontinued, these periodical applications resulting in the lifting of water. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)
Advancing knowledge pushed them back till nature, "rid of her haughty lords," is conceived as a huge mechanism, self-acting, self-adjusting, and self-repairing. ❋ Chapman Cohen (N/A)
Shrewsbury, Vt. -- This invention relates to improvements in self-acting shackles and car brakes, and consists in an improved connection of the brakes with the shackle, for automatic operation, whereby the connection may be readily so adjusted that the brakes will not be set in action as when required to back up the train. ❋ Various (N/A)
This center together with the nerves and muscles in question form an automatic, or self-acting, mechanism similar in some respects to that of the heart. ❋ Francis M. Walters (N/A)
There are 126 looms in operation, all self-acting and each one making 47 bags daily; the bags are a little more than three and a half feet long, and chiefly used, I believe, for flour and grain. ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)