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" I believe that animals have descended from at most only. four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. "
A Manual of Physiology and of the Principles of Disease - Page 400
by Edward Dillon Mapother - 1864 - 567 pages
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Science a Witness for the Bible

William Nelson Pendleton - Bible and science - 1860 - 362 pages
...five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. I should infer that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended...
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All the Year Round, Volume 3

Charles Dickens - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...rudimentary, organised cell, or elementary being, which was the first parent of every living creature—that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy, he owns, may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living things have much in common in their chemical...
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The Theological and Literary Journal, Volume 13

1861 - 824 pages
...cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most...plants have descended from some one prototype. But an analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living things have much in common, in their...
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Palaeontology Or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their ...

Richard Owen - Extinct animals - 1861 - 552 pages
...most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analog)-," he adds, " would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief...all animals and plants have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed" (p. 414). Lamarck f rejects even this limitation...
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Jahrbücher für deutsche Theologie, herausg. von dr. Liebner [and ..., Volume 6

Carl Theodor A. Liebner - 1861 - 828 pages
...animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number. — Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals ¡nul plants have descended from some one prototype" etc. (p. 484). Sluffaffung ber @афе toerbe...
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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of ..., Volume 10

James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1871 - 580 pages
...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." Of the latter he speaks with more reserve. " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to...have descended from some one prototype. But analogy," he adds, " may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless he sees sufficient reason to justify him in following...
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Proceedings of the Meeting of the Officers of Colleges and Academies: Held ...

State University of New York - Education - 1864 - 72 pages
...believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely,...and plants have descended from some one prototype". Now, as this theory admits God as Creator, it is really unnecessary. To infinite power it was equally...
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The stream of life on our globe ... as revealed by modern discoveries in ...

John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...remarkable climbing instinct and capacity of the nuthatch " (?) (p. 257). "Analogy would lead me a step further, namely, to the belief that all animals...and plants have descended from some one prototype " (p. 518). Now, let Mr. Darwin's followers examine the history of the most artificial of all animals,...
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The Plurality of the Human Race

Georges Pouchet - Anthropology - 1864 - 188 pages
...five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype." teristic. We have shown, while speaking of hybridity, that a native individual disposition ought always...
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The plurality of the human race, tr. and ed. by H.J.C. Beavan. (Publ ...

Henri Charles Georges Pouchet - 1864 - 188 pages
...five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype." t Compare Darwin On the Origin of Species, p.96, 1H61. teristic. We have shown, while speaking of hybridity,...
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