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The God Delusion - Page 29
by Richard Dawkins - 2011 - 464 pages
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Nature, Volume 26

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1882 - 722 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...
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Charles Darwin: Memorial Notices Reprinted from "Nature."

1882 - 110 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...
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William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Fifty Years of ..., Volumes 3-4

Thomas Archer - Great Britain - 1883 - 766 pages
...a man who was known to be a devout believer in religion, and who concluded his treatise by saying: "From the war of nature, from famine and death, the...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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Chapters on Evolution

Andrew Wilson - Evolution - 1883 - 444 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,...higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur," concludes Mr. Darwin, " in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed...
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Walks in the Regions of Science and Faith: A Series of Essays

Harvey Goodwin - Nature - 1883 - 340 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,...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...
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Chapters on Evolution

Andrew Wilson - Evolution - 1883 - 408 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. Tliere is grandeur," concludes Mr. Darwin, " in this view of life, with its several powers having been...
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Journal, Volume 3

Liverpool Geological Association - Geology - 1883 - 182 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. His book opens by giving an account of Variation under Domestication, as illustrated by the domestic...
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William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Fifty Years of ..., Volumes 3-4

Thomas Archer - Great Britain - 1883 - 786 pages
...was known to be a devout believer in religion, and who concluded his treatise by saying : " From tlie war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted...are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of tlie higher animals, directly follows. There in grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,...
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Aspects of Scepticism: With Special Reference to the Present Time

John Fordyce - Faith - 1883 - 490 pages
...To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter 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 that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according...
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Christianity and Humanity

Charles Samuel Eby - Apologetics - 1883 - 324 pages
...and replied to it very truly, when at the end of his work on the Origin of Species he said : — " 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...
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