| 1876 - 794 pages
...evolution of life" includes its origin, and others attribute this to creation. Thus, Mr. Darwin speaks of ''life with its several powers, having been originally...breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or into one," but Dr. Chapman says there are " no vital forces which are not convertible into physical ones ; " and... | |
| Ransom Bethune Welch - 1876 - 320 pages
...animals have descended from at most four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number ; life with its several powers, having been originally...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." * The hypothesis of " natural and sexual selection," even if established, could not be decisive of... | |
| Herbert William Morris - 1876 - 736 pages
...animal development, he is constrained to resort to Divine agency ; for he speaks in one place of 'life having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or one ; ' and in another place of ' animals having descended from at most four or five progenitors.'... | |
| 1876 - 778 pages
...life " includes its origin, and others attribute this to creation. Thus, Mr. Darwin speaks of "bfe with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or into one," but Dr. Chapman says there are " no vital forces which are not convertible into physical ones;" and... | |
| Daniel Worcester Faunce - 1877 - 264 pages
...science says that there was originally a Creator. Even Darwin, often called an atheist, says, " Life was originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." Owen says that " law is only secondary cause," but he holds that law is guided by the intelligence... | |
| 1878 - 794 pages
...beings which have ever lived on this earth may have descended from some one primordial form." . . " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been,... | |
| 1878 - 802 pages
...beings which have ever lived on this earth may have descended from some one primordial form." . . " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been,... | |
| Joseph William Reynolds - 1878 - 552 pages
...which' has become the leading idea of comparative anatomy in its present stage. Mr. Darwin thinks " there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one."2 Professor Huxley says — "All existing species are the result of the modification of pre-existing... | |
| Joseph William Reynolds - 1878 - 552 pages
...which has become the leading idea of comparative anatomy in its present stage. Mr. Darwin thinks " there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one."2 Professor Huxley says — "All existing species are the result of the modification of pre-existing... | |
| 1879 - 614 pages
...before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. . . . There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the first law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have... | |
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