 | Alexander Wilford Hall - Evolution - 1877 - 546 pages
...a* the backbone and spinal marrow of the first vertebrate animal] existed, which could not po»ibly have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."— DARWIN, Origin of Species, p. 146. Here, then, again Mr. Darwin surrenders his whole theory as having... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - Evolution - 1881 - 348 pages
...especially, (First Edition,) p. 189, where, after attempting to explain the origin of the eye, he says, " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. 4 Murray, 1871, vol. ii. p. 387. " No doubt man, as well as every other animal, presents structures... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1881 - 608 pages
...untenable. Thus in the 'Origin of Species ' he says, ' If it could be demonstrated that any complete organ existed which could not possibly have been formed...modifications my theory would absolutely break down.' Then in ' The Descent of Man ' he says, ' An unexplained residuum of change, perhaps a large one, must... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - Bible and science - 1882 - 418 pages
...or of any great and sudden modification in their structure " ; 1 Darwin himself having said that " if it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."2 1 Origin of Species, pp. 75, 76. a Ibid., p. 146. The writer in the North British Review, already... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - Adultery - 1883 - 312 pages
...the matter of her thoughts are woven hopelessly together like warp and woof, but she reads on : "' If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...formed by numerous successive slight modifications' (in how many years am I likely to die ?) ' my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - 1883 - 478 pages
...the matter of her thoughts are woven hopelessly together like warp and woof, but she reads on : " ' If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...formed by numerous successive slight modifications ' (in, how many years am I likely to die ?), ' my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find... | |
 | Albion Winegar Tourgée - 1883 - 852 pages
...the matter of her thoughts are woven hopelessly together like warp and woof, but she reads on : " ' If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...formed by numerous successive slight modifications ' (in tune many years am I likely to die f) ' my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find... | |
 | Benjamin G. Ferris - Evolution - 1883 - 474 pages
...the shortest and slowest steps." (2-174). If (he says), it could be demonstrated that any complete organ existed which could not possibly have been formed...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." (2-169). He does not tell us how his four or five primordial types were created. Whether they were... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - Anthropology - 1885 - 342 pages
...been formed by ' Natural Selection,' seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been by numerous successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." * A remarkable... | |
 | Philosophy - 1891 - 208 pages
...which it inculcates: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ [such as the wing of a bird] existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications, my thfory would absolutely break down."— DARWIN, Origin of Species, p. 146. The demonstration is "absolutely"... | |
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If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. 
