 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1881 - 502 pages
...treated by tjje critics. When I first came to the notion, which I never saw expressed elsewhere, though T have no doubt it had all been thought out before,...circumstances that must be contemplated and foreknown, before it can be decided what powers and qualities a new species must have in order to enable it to endure... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 670 pages
...revolutions, carried on by a regular system of secondary causes. I have not wasted time in any controversies with them or others, except so far as modifying in...For one can in imagination summon before us a small part at least of the circumstances that must be contemplated and foreknown, before it can be decided... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 646 pages
...revolutions, carried on by a regular system of secondary causes. I have not wasted time in any controversies with them or others, except so far as modifying in...For one can in imagination summon before us a small part at least of the circumstances that must be contemplated and foreknown, before it can be decided... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 780 pages
...causes. I have not wasted time in any controversies with them or others, except so far as modifjing in new editions some opinions or expressions, and...For one can in imagination summon before us a small part at least of the circumstances that must be contemplated and foreknown, before it can be decided... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 850 pages
...opinions or expressions, and fortifying others, and by this means I have spared a great deal of mk-shed, and have upon the whole been very fairly treated by...grandest which I had ever conceived, so far as regards fhe attributes of the Presiding Mind. For one can in '^agination summon before us a small part at least... | |
 | Robert Damon - 1884 - 284 pages
...doctrine of a limited evolution Sir C. Lyell thus expresses himself: " When I first came to the notion of a succession of extinction of species, and creation...regards the attributes of the Presiding Mind. For . . . what powers and qualities a new species must have in order to enable it to endure for a given... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 224 pages
...overthrown my own doctrine of revolutions carried on by a regular system of secondary causes. . . . When I first came to the notion, which I never saw...as regards the attributes of the Presiding Mind." In a succeeding paragraph, Lyell very remarkably foreshadows Darwin's " natural selection '' and "... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 232 pages
...past, and to continue for ages to come, all in accommodation to the changes which must con-' tinue in the inanimate and habitable earth, the idea struck...as regards the attributes of the Presiding Mind." In a succeeding paragraph, Lyell very remarkably foreshadows Darwin's " natural selection " and " struggle... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1895 - 236 pages
...what would * The weakness of his eyes was always more or less of a trouble. only be a speculation .... When I first came to the notion — which I never...For one can in imagination summon before us a small part * at least of the circumstances which must be contemplated and foreknown, before it can be decided... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1895 - 278 pages
...notion—which I never saw expressed elsewhere, though I have no doubt it had all been thought out before—of a succession""" of extinction of species, and creation...For one can in imagination summon before us a small part* at least of the circumstances which must be contemplated and foreknown, before it can be decided... | |
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When I first came to the notion, which I never saw expressed elsewhere, though I have no doubt it had all been thought out before, of a succession of extinction of species, and creation of .new ones, going on perpetually now, and through an indefinite... 
