| 1861 - 716 pages
...on for millions on millions of years, and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds, and may we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass as the works of .the Creator are to those of man?— P. 169. Let any one who has been able to bring his mind... | |
| 1861 - 1148 pages
...for millions on millions of years ; and during each year in millions of individuals of many kinds ; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man ? "* This reference to the Creator seems a complementary allusion... | |
| 1860 - 890 pages
...on for millions on millions of years, and during each year on millions cf individuals of many kinds, and may we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed, as superior to one of glass as the works of the Creator are to those of man ? " (pp. 188, 189.) This picture of a Creator experimenting... | |
| 1861 - 716 pages
...on for millions on millions of years, and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds, and may we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass as the works of the Creator are to those of man? — P. 169. Let any one who has been able to bring his mind... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...for millions on millions of years ; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds ; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man ? If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,... | |
| 1861 - 842 pages
...for millions on millions of years, "and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds, and may we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed, as superior to one ot gl»ss as the works of the Creator are to those of man f" " 1 believe that animals have descended... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...for millions on millions of years ; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds ; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man? If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 pages
...for millions on millions of years ; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds ; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as L 2 superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man ? Modes of Transition.... | |
| 1867 - 524 pages
...for millions on millions of years, and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds ; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man ? " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 406 pages
...for millions on millions of years ; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds, and may we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass as the works of the Creator are to those of man?' (208). This portentous statement, which, for its wildness,... | |
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