 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1881 - 504 pages
...treated by the critics. 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,...circumstances that must be contemplated and foreknown, before ib can be decided what powers and qualities a new species must have in order to enable it to endure... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 780 pages
...treated by the critics. 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,...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 - 670 pages
...treated by the critics. 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,...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
...treated by the critics. 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,...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
...treated by the critics. 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,...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 - 228 pages
...secondary causes. . . . 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,...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
...speculation .... 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 —...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... 
