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 God Delusion - Page 29by Richard Dawkins - 2011 - 464 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| John Cotton Smith - 1876 - 272 pages
...the works of Mr. Darwin, one of the most distinguished representatives of this school : " There is a 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... | |
| Science - 1877 - 612 pages
...unconsciously influenced in some way by the memory of Darwin's eloquent words, which are as follow : — " 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... | |
| James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1877 - 600 pages
...unconsciously influenced in some way by the memory of Darwin's eloquent words, which are as follow : — " 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... | |
| 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 powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one."2 Professor Huxley says — "All existing species are... | |
| 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 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... | |
| 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 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... | |
| Joseph William Reynolds - Religion and science - 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 powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one."2 Professor Huxley says — "All existing species are... | |
| James Thomas Whittaker - 1879 - 318 pages
...and the slow but certain improvement of forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine, and from death, the most exalted object which we are capable...namely, the production of the higher animals, directly and inevitably follows. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been... | |
| 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 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... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - General - 1873 - 584 pages
...sound biological generalization that the extirpation of the lower race should be the immediate cause of the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving...— namely, the production of the higher animals," this is a cold and cheerless creed. We may be excused for requiring very rigorous proof before accepting... | |
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