 | 1868 - 522 pages
...breeds of cattle and sheep ;" Lord Somerville, boasting of what breeders have done for sheep, saying, " It would seem as if they had chalked out upon a wall...perfect in itself, and then had given it existence." In his book on the " Origin of Species," published a couple of years since, the author quotes Mr. Youatt... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1868 - 520 pages
...boasting of what breeders have done for sheep, saying, " It would seem as if they had chalked o:it upon a wall a form perfect in itself, and then had given it existence." In his book on the " Origin of Species," published a couple of years since, the author quotes Mr. Youatt... | |
 | James Bischoff - Sheep - 1842 - 508 pages
...good fortune of those who worked out such an alteration. It would seem as if they had chalked out on a wall, a form perfect in itself, and then had given it existence. Such is the animal now, almost the reverse of what it was, and from whatever source it originated,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...whatever form and mould he pleases." Speaking of what breeders have done for sheep, Lord Somerville says: — "It would seem as if they had chalked out...perfect in itself, and then had given it existence." According to Mr. Darwin, breeders of cattle are in the habit of lalking of an animal's organisation... | |
 | 1860 - 594 pages
...form from those originally used, and this in a comparatively short space of time. Lord Somerville, speaking of what breeders have done for sheep, says...perfect in itself, and then had given it existence." That most skilful breeder, Sir John Sebright, used to say, with respect to pigeons, that " he would... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 pages
...wand, by means of which he may summon into life whatever form and mould he pleases.' Lord Somerville, speaking of what breeders have done for sheep, says : ' It would seem as it' they had chalked out upon a wall a form perfect in itself, and then had given it existence.' That... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...wand, by means of which he may summon into life whatever form and mould he pleases." Lord Somerville, speaking of what breeders have done for sheep, says...perfect in itself, and then had given it existence." That most skilful breeder, Sir John Sebright, used to say, with respect to pigeons, that " he would... | |
 | robert scott burn - 1861 - 738 pages
...form and mould he pleases. " It would seem," says Lord Somerville, speaking of breeders of sheep, " as if they had chalked out upon a wall a form perfect in itself, and then had given it existence." We all know what marvellous results have been brought about by skilful breeding, and this is owing... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...wand, by means of which he may summon into life whatever form and mould he pleases." Lord Somerville, speaking of what breeders have done for sheep, says:...seem as if they had chalked out upon a wall a form per-. feet in itself, and then had given it existence." That most skilful breeder, Sir John Sebright,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 510 pages
...wand, by means of which he may summon into life whatever form and mould he pleases.' " Lord Somerville, speaking of what breeders have done for sheep, says :—" It would seem that they had chalked upon a wall a form perfect in itself and then given it existence." That most... | |
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It would seem as if they had chalked out upon a wall a form perfect in itself, and then had given it existence." In Saxony the importance of the principle of selection in regard to merino sheep is so fully recognised, that men follow it as a trade: the... 
