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" Let this process go on for 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 of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those... "
The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution ... - Page 394
by Alexander Wilford Hall - 1877 - 512 pages
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 43

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...
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

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...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

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...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 13; Volume 21; Volume 43

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...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

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,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 89

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...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

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,...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation ...

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....
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Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species

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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