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
| 1866 - 694 pages
...to Natural Selection, entailing divergence of character and the extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production (creation 1} of the higher animals, directly follows."... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1871 - 496 pages
...grandeur in the view, as Mr. Darwin says, which derives from so simple yet mysterious an origin, and " from the war of nature, from famine and death, the...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals." Our author, however, is much more " advanced " than Mr. Darwin on the question of the origin of life... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 546 pages
...dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us." . . . . " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having bein originally brea'hcd by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 662 pages
...dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around u>. " . . . . "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having be< n originally brea'hed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet... | |
| Charles Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1872 - 768 pages
...to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...production of the higher animals, directly follows." l Remarks on the Darwinian Theory. First, it shocks the common sense of unsophisticated men to be told... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 716 pages
..." each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting " around us.'' . . . . " 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... | |
| John R. Leifchild - Natural theology - 1872 - 578 pages
...other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us." And further : — " 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 while this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
| Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald - Geology - 1872 - 534 pages
...dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us." . . . "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... | |
| Geology - 1872 - 520 pages
...dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us." . . . "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... | |
| William George Williams - 1872 - 398 pages
...and from these atomic centers, in fact, all organisms have emanated. He thus states it : " 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, while this planet has gone cycling on, according... | |
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