 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
 | Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1874 - 764 pages
...others, refuse to admit the irreligious tendency of their view?. The former asserts that there ia 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... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Evolution - 1874 - 190 pages
...which we are capable of conceiving, the production of the higher animals directly follows. 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... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 406 pages
...character and the extinction of less improved forms, is decidedly followed by the most exalted object wlnVh we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the. higher animals.' But we can give him a simpler solution still for the presence of these strange forms of imperfection... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 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,...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... | |
 | English literature - 1875 - 702 pages
...the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch. ..." (Ibid., p. 48P). " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...been originally breathed into a few forms or into one " (Ibid., p. 490). There ia no uncertain utterance here. There has been no special creation. All beings... | |
 | Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt - Adaptation (Biology) - 1875 - 362 pages
...of nature to its logical inferences. In the last page of the " Origin of Species," Darwin says : " 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... | |
 | Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) - Adaptation (Biology) - 1875 - 376 pages
...of nature to its logical inferences. In the last page of the " Origin of Species," Darwin says : " 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 Fraser - Bible and science - 1875 - 452 pages
...on this earth have descended from some one form into which life was first breathed by the Creator: "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 all • "Origin. of Species," p. 570; fifth edition,... | |
 | Andrew Martin Fairbairn - History - 1876 - 424 pages
...presentment subtly masked. The concluding sentence of the " Origin of Species " will be remembered : " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one ; and that while this planet has gone cycling on according to... | |
 | Medicine - 1876 - 528 pages
...a Doctrine vntanclioaed by Science. ISy TIIOHAS WHAETOK JONES, FHS, &c. 1876, pp. CO. " 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... | |
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