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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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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining ..., Volume 2

James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1863 - 654 pages
...also the italics are ours. J Origin of Species, p. 484. || Ibid. p. 488. And thirdly :— " There is a 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...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 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,...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few...
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The stream of life on our globe ... as revealed by modern discoveries in ...

John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...operation of a simple law, is something grand. " There is grandeur in this view of life," Mr. Darwin says, "with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one." No doubt there is grandeur, but incomparably more grandeur will there be in it when men have...
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Analysis of Darwin, Huxley and Lyell, Being a Critical Examination of the ...

Henry A. DuBois - Human beings - 1866 - 112 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, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production (creation ?) of the higher animals, directly follows."...
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The First Man and His Place in Creation: Considered on the Principles of ...

George Moore - Theological anthropology - 1866 - 392 pages
...into which life was breathed by the Creator.'f Mr. Darwin says, somewhat exultingly : ' There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or one.' There is, doubtless, necessarily a grandeur in any...
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species

Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 424 pages
...in the subsequent editions ; and in addition to this a long paragraph ending with this sentence, ' there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law...
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species

Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...in the subsequent editions ; and in addition to this a long paragraph ending with this sentence, ' there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed into af etc forms or one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law...
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The Intellectual Observer, Volume 12

Science - 1868 - 560 pages
...the concluding remarks of his well-know; work, in which, alluding to his theory, he says " there is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,...originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one, and that while this planet has gone cycling on, according to the fixed law of gravity from so...
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The Intellectual Observer, Volume 12

Science - 1868 - 556 pages
...the concluding remarks of his well-known work, in which, alluding to his theory, he says " there is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originallv breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one, and that while this planet has gone cycling...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

Geology - 1869 - 468 pages
...creation, it would be absolutely fatal to it as a hypothesis. ' Natural Selection - sees grandeur in the " view of life, with its several powers, having been...originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or in to one :"* 'Derivation- sees, therein, a narrow invocation of a special miracle and an unworthy...
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