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" ... would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations,... "
Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and ... - Page 230
by Samuel Butler - 1879 - 384 pages
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Zoonomia, Volume 1

Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those im- f, provements by generation to its posterity, world without end? / Sixthly, The cold-blooded animals, as the fish-tribes, which are furnished with but one ventricle of the heart, and with gills instead of lungs,...
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The Torch

412 pages
...attended with new propensities, directed by imitations, sensations, volitions, and associations, and that possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by...by generation to its posterity, world without end ! !" But Mr Weeks and our author go farther than this We wish we had space to quote the appendix to...
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Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History, and Management

Edmund Saul Dixon - 1848 - 388 pages
...one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed...by generation to its posterity, world without end ! " — Id. vol. ip 505. These extracts are not given from any disrespect to the abilities or intentions...
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A Treatise on the History and Management of Ornamental and Domestic Poultry

Edmund Saul Dixon - 1857 - 544 pages
...one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed...by generation to its posterity, world without end I" — Id. vol. i. p. 505. These extracts are not given from any disrespect to the abilities or intentions...
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Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 35

1878 - 822 pages
...one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed...by generation to its posterity, world without end ? " After this passage, he further argues that all the lower orders — fishes, reptiles, insects,...
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Erasmus Darwin, tr. by W.S. Dallas

Ernst Ludwig Krause - 1879 - 230 pages
...living filament " which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with " animality, with the power of acquiring new " parts, attended with new propensities, " directed...by generation to its " posterity, world without end !" It might be doubted, the author goes on to say, whether the fishes, which have fins instead of feet...
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Erasmus Darwin

Ernst Krause - 1879 - 224 pages
...living filament " which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with " animality, with the power of acquiring new " parts, attended with new propensities, " directed...by generation to its " posterity, world without end !" It might be doubted, the author goes on to say, whether the fishes, which have fins instead of feet...
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Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy ..., Volume 17

James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1880 - 822 pages
...one living filament which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed...by generation to its posterity, world without end." This idea is by no means unsuitable as far as animals are concerned ; but with strict logical consistency...
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Nature, Volume 21

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1880 - 668 pages
...one living filament which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed...by generation to its posterity, world without end ! ' " In his " Temple of Nature " :— "About the first hundred verses are devoted to a description...
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The Development Theory: A Brief Statement for General Readers

Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - 1884 - 266 pages
...one living filament,1 which the great First Cause endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts attended with new propensities, directed...by generation to its posterity, world without end? "2 It is impossible in a single selection, of whatever length, to give a just idea of the thorough1...
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