There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity... The Intellectual Observer - Page 3821868Full view - About this book
| 1862 - 638 pages
...powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forrns or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...law of gravity from so simple a beginning endless forius most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." Die Einzelheiten der Darwinschen... | |
| John Phillips - 1860 - 280 pages
...with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved1.' 1 Professor Sedgwick has communicated to the Cambridge Philosophical Society an examination... | |
| 1864 - 668 pages
...powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are leing, evolved."* The chief and only positive argument in favour of the theory of transmutation on... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 pages
...powers, having bein originally brea'hcd by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...a beginning endless forms, most beautiful and most wonHerlul, have been and are being evolved." With the feeling exp essed in these two sentences I most... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 540 pages
...bet n originally brea'hed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this pl.met has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of...a beginning endless forms, most beautiful and most wonderlul, have been and are being evolved." With the feeling exp essed in these two sentences I mo>t... | |
| George St. Clair - 1873 - 296 pages
...powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...beautiful and most wonderful, have been and are being evolved.1 If this view of the origin of the first living forms were the only one to which the theory... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 pages
...powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and sre being evolved. GLOSSAEY. GLOSSARY PEINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC TERMS USED IN THE PRESENT VOLUME.* ABERRANT.—Forms... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful Live been, and are being evolved. GLOSSARY OF TUS PRINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC TEEMS USED IN TEE PRESENT VOLUME."... | |
| Andrew Martin Fairbairn - 1876 - 424 pages
...remembered : " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one ;...law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless form's, most beautiful and most wonderful, have been, and are being evolved." . But it depends on the... | |
| James Thomas Whittaker - 1879 - 318 pages
...into a few forms, or into one ; and in that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on, according to a fixed law of gravity — from so simple a beginning — endless forms, most beautiful, most varied, and most wonderful, have been, and are being evolved. r-: : ... • IS•'. Fig. io.—... | |
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