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" 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... "
Footnotes to Evolution: A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of Life - Page 49
by David Starr Jordan - 1898 - 392 pages
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...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...
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Bericht über die fortschritte der anatomie und physiologie ..., Volume 13

Anatomy - 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...
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Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession

John Phillips - Life - 1860 - 262 pages
...with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved 1 .' GENERAL REFLECTIONS. These various speculations on the subject of Fossil plants and animals, and...
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Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession

John Phillips - Life - 1860 - 280 pages
...with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved1.' 1 Professor Sedgwick has communicated to the Cambridge Philosophical Society an examination...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1860 - 890 pages
...been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into ONE ; and that whilst this planct has gone cycling on, according to the fixed law of...most wonderful, have been and are being evolved." And how is this extraordinary dogma attempted to be substantiated ? Certainly not by anything that...
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Crosthwaite's Register of facts and occurrences relating to literature, the ...

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...
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The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system

David Page - 1861 - 278 pages
...its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." Here then, according to his own showing, inheritance, external conditions, use and disuse, struggle...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...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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The Past and Present Life of the Globe: Being a Sketch in Outline of the ...

David Page - Paleontology - 1861 - 276 pages
...its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." Here then, according to his own showing, inheritance, external conditions, use and disuse, struggle...
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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining ..., Volume 2

James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 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...
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