| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| |