| English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...and, summing up the conditions which all living things have in common, this writer infers from that analogy, ' that probably all the organic beings which...from some one primordial form, into ' which life was first breathed.' || By the latter scriptural phrase, it may be inferred that Mr. * Philosophic Zoologique,... | |
| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1885 - 730 pages
...composition, their germinal vescicles, their cellular structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed... | |
| Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...little thought soon satisfies him that there is no resting-place here. He then makes the final plunge: "Therefore, I should infer from analogy that probably...have ever lived on this earth have descended from one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." (Page 419.) Here at last we find the germ... | |
| Methodist Church - 1860 - 722 pages
...degree which I require, few will be inclined to admit." 4. Mr. Darwin supposes that, " probably, all organic beings which have ever lived on this earth...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." " Form into which life was first breathed "? But that is a miracle ; a most stupendous... | |
| Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...and animals : or that the poison secreted by the gall-fly produces monstrous growths in the wild-rose or oak-tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." The facts which first suggested to the author this most sweeping inference from analogy,... | |
| 1864 - 822 pages
...in the course of millions of generations and under the operation of a law of unlimited variation. " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings th»t have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1861 - 276 pages
...excused from designating somewhat vague ideas of a community of composition, he adds this climax — " Therefore, I should infer from analogy that, probably,...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." * 86 Let me now proceed to the examination of Agassiz' further arguments. I pass over... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...or that the poison secreted by the gallfly produces monstrons growths on the wild rose or oak tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primoritialform into which life teas first breathed." process is repealed : fresh firr"rTic«s appear,... | |
| 1860 - 800 pages
...protests that " analogy may be a deceitful guide," yet he follows its inexorable leading to the inference that " probably all the organic beings which have...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."* In the first extract we have the thin end of the wedge driven a little way; in the... | |
| Geology - 1860 - 512 pages
...cannot ^doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." We may well ask what is gained by such a result, even if established. The origin of... | |
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