 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1884 - 798 pages
...indications of theistic belief. And, indeed, " we may console ourselves " for " the happy survive " (p. 61) " from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows " (p.... | |
 | Science - 1884 - 828 pages
...indications of theistic belief. And, indeed, " we may console ourselves " for " the happy survive " (p, 61) " from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows " (p.... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1885 - 246 pages
...Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character, and the Extinction of the less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...production of the higher animals, directly follows.' Such was the simple and inoffensive-looking bombshell which Darwin launched from his quiet home at... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1885 - 324 pages
...righteousness, is the supreme contradiction to the climax of bathos with which Mr. Darwin concludes his book: "Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death,...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, necessarily follows." * It is a very unhappy introduction of Darwinism to the world, that its author... | |
 | Natural history - 1885 - 386 pages
...conclusion of the evolving of man from an inferior creature. The writer of the " Origin of Species" speaks of " life with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or ova,"* and it must be conceded that Creation is not what many who are ignorant of the effect of natural... | |
 | Emil Du Bois-Reymond - Philosophy of nature - 1886 - 574 pages
...object ehieh tue are capable of coriceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, dirertfy follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with...its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forme or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on uccortliny to thefixrd... | |
 | Franz Heinrich Reusch - Bible and evolution - 1886 - 394 pages
...plants and animals which have existed, or still exist, have found their place. Darwin may well say, "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having beeii originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Evolution - 1887 - 232 pages
...perfection." The concluding sentence of the "Origin of Species" has become one of our classical quotations. " 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...number of the best organized individuals. f ' Origin of Species ' (edit, i.), p. 490 : — " 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...number of the best organized individuals. f ' Origin of Species ' (edit, i.), p. 490 : — " 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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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... 
