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" There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on' according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless... "
A Manual of Physiology and of the Principles of Disease - Page 401
by Edward Dillon Mapother - 1864 - 567 pages
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Christian Philosophy, God: Being a Contribution to a Philosophy of Theism

John Thomas Driscoll - Apologetics - 1900 - 372 pages
...state of mind is that of Agnosticism." " In his Origin of Species he concludes with these words: " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been signally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone...
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The Alumni Register of the University of Pennsylvania, Volume 6

1901 - 710 pages
...world itself are the result of an immensely long process of evolution. As Darwin so beautifully says, "There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one, and that whilst this planet has gone cycling...
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Studi sulla filosofia contemporanea, Volume 1

Francesco De Sarlo - Philosophy, Modern - 1901 - 256 pages
...to Naturai Selection, untai l ing Divergence of Charakter and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object wich we are capable of conceiving, namely, the higher animala, directly follows ' • ,J ' • ', ,...
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The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer ...

Evolution (Biology) - 1902 - 200 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,...grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, 33 having been originall), breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, while this...
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The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

Margaret Sanger - History - 2003 - 436 pages
...find the roots of this reasoning in the very last words of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object of which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows....
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Genesis: The Evolution of Biology

Jan Sapp - Science - 2003 - 388 pages
...twenty years later, when mass unrest was past. Even then, he had to be pushed into it.45 2 The Origin Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted objects which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows....
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Deep Futures: Our Prospects for Survival

Doug Cocks - Nature - 2003 - 356 pages
...being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection ... There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; ... from so simple a beginning endless forms...
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Genetics and the Logic of Evolution

Kenneth M. Weiss, Anne V. Buchanan - Science - 2004 - 560 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....its several powers. having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that. whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...
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Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity

Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona - Religion - 2004 - 374 pages
...supporting it. The final sentences in his book could hardly be understood other than metaphysically: Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...
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The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation and Progress in ...

Timothy Shanahan - Science - 2004 - 354 pages
...Gould fails to include the sentence immediately preceding the words he quotes, in which Darwin writes: 'Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...production of the higher animals, directly follows" (Darwin 1859, p. 490). It is worth pausing for a moment to reflect on the significance of these words.4...
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