There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning... The Rice Institute Pamphlet - Page 2621916Full view - About this book
| 1861 - 1148 pages
...into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless...most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."* Tliis doctrine that the whole universe of matter and of life is a self-evolving system of laws, is... | |
| 1860 - 694 pages
...into a few forms or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the flxed law of gravity from so simple a beginning endless...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." Die Einzelheiten der Darwinschen Ansicht sind nicht neu: Buffon schon hielt die Species nur für ein... | |
| 1860 - 890 pages
...into a few forms or into ONE ; and that whilst this planct has gone cycling on, according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless...most wonderful, have been and are being evolved." And how is this extraordinary dogma attempted to be substantiated ? Certainly not by anything that... | |
| John Phillips - 1860 - 262 pages
...into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless...and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved 1 .' GENERAL REFLECTIONS. These various speculations on the subject of Fossil plants and animals, and... | |
| Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless forms,...most wonderful, have been, and are being, evolved." It remains for us most strongly to recommend to such of our readers as are interested in the study... | |
| David Page - 1861 - 278 pages
...into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." Here then, according to his own showing, inheritance, external conditions, use and disuse, struggle... | |
| David Page - 1861 - 276 pages
...into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." Here then, according to his own showing, inheritance, external conditions, use and disuse, struggle... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless...most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. SUPPLEMENT. The following additions and alterations, prepared by the author expressly for this edition,... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1863 - 654 pages
...few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless forms...and most wonderful have been and are being evolved." * The author first referred to, who declares himself to be the seeker of "truth," and who wishes to... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...few forms or into one ; and that, whilst •this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless...most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. SUPPLEMENT. The following additions and alterations, prepared by the author expressly for this edition,... | |
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