 | Science - 1874 - 800 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. . . . There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - History - 1874 - 412 pages
...bolder when he has once pronounced his theory, he goes on to suggest to us, from one single head : — ' Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that ALL AXIMALS and PLANTS have descended from someone prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless,... | |
 | 1875 - 660 pages
...avowed as the accepted consequence of the adoption of his principle. I believe that all animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors,...namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype, but analogy may be a deceitful guide. On the principle of natural... | |
 | Sir Frederick Bateman - Evolution - 1877 - 262 pages
...probably arboreal in its habits ; in fact that he is descended from the old-world monkeys, that he must further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype." " Origin of Species," P. 484. THE THEORY DEFINED. be classed with the quadruinana, the most immediate... | |
 | Liverpool Geological Association - Geology - 1883 - 182 pages
...descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. He adds " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide.'' And here I must remark... | |
 | Thomas Archer - Great Britain - 1883 - 766 pages
...lesser number." But speculatively he went farther. " Analogy would lead me one step further," he said, "namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype; but this inference is chiefly grounded on analogy, and it is immaterial whether or not it be accepted.... | |
 | Thomas Archer - Great Britain - 1883 - 786 pages
...lesser number." But speculative!}1 he went farther. " Analogy would lead me one step f;irther," he said, "namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype; but this inference is chiefly grounded on analogy, and it is immaterial whether or not it be accepted.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 396 pages
...modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors,...namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living... | |
 | Royal Society of New South Wales - Science - 1884 - 400 pages
...number." He seems to have looked forward even to a higher generalization, for he goes on to say that "analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to...plants have descended from some one prototype ; but this inference is chiefly grounded on analogy, and it is immaterial whether or not it be accepted.... | |
 | William Thomas Greene - 1884 - 540 pages
...tissues", but limits the number of original progenitors to four or five: while "Analogy", 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.) Surely a most unnecessary hypothesis.... | |
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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. 
